Brian Meadows
Oct 31, 2022

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I'm not sure that was Haiti. I read that it was actually Guadaloupe. Of course, if an island so much smaller generated such wealth, God only knows how much Haiti generated.

I don't know about Mansa Musa's debts but I've read that, when he went to Mecca, he gave and spent so much gold that his hajj actually knocked down the price of gold for at least a generation.

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Brian Meadows
Brian Meadows

Written by Brian Meadows

An angry straight white Anglo-Saxon angry at most of his 'own kind'.

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