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I was bored when I wrote this but I saw a Vox video about Haiti and the DR which stated that Haiti faces racial segregation and abuse from it's only neighbor, the DR, and even in it's earlier years European countries and the US were hostile or uninterested in Haiti as the first black republic. I am now interested in seeing what would happen if Haiti's independence was greeted kindly with the European superpowers.

Here it goes:

Right after independence, Haiti was greeted by the international community with support. Immediately, countries started to engage in trade and may help the new country to recover after it's revolution. France doesn't latter decide to demand Haiti to pay war debts so their economy doesn't completely destabilized. When I mean "economy doesn't completely destabilized" I mean their economy doesn't get worse than it already is since their main produce, agriculture, was almost destroyed by the revolution and the resources deprived by France's aggressive use of the colonies' resources. Haiti then has to use different ways of making a sustainable economy such as reforesting their land by planting trees so they can get fertile soil to grow crops and will have to base their economy on mining as Haiti contains valuable minerals such as bauxite, copper, calcium carbonate, gold, silver, and marble. After their land becomes fertile, they start to plant crops and develop practices such as crop rotations and using plants to replenish nutrients in their soil. During the World Wars, Haiti in our timeline was under US occupation but in this timeline, Haiti remains neutral and is a dictatorship. In the Cold War, they side with the US due to the Cuban Missile Crisis. Fast-forward to the 21st century, Haiti's economy and standard of living is similar to that of the DR(Dominican Republic) since their economic recovery after independence and better foreign relations allowed then to have a better economy and similar to that of the DR than the Haiti in our timeline.

Note: This is just a guess on what would happen and is primarily based on guesses and some quick historical data.
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