Paper ProposalThesis: Haiti is a country that has been subject to poverty and underdevelopment for as long as we can remember. However, before its independence, the former French colony of Saint-Domingue was the most successful and profitable colony in the kingdom, so much so that it was even called the jewel in the crown of France. After the country declared its independence in 1804, it was shunned politically and diplomatically by the rest of the world. In this article, we will explore how, between 1804 and the mid-1900s, the world powers of the time, whether France, the United States, or even Germany, contributed to this that Haiti's efforts never bear fruit economically. The Republic of Haiti is a Caribbean republic. country which gained its independence in 1804 after a bloody slave revolution against the French who ruled and colonized the western part of the island. The revolution resulted in the abolition of slavery on the island and the self-liberation of millions of slaves. Even after gaining independence, Haiti's difficulties were only just beginning. As one might imagine, the great powers of the time, namely the United States, Great Britain, Spain and especially France, who had suffered the loss of their colony, were not enthusiastic about this result. Haiti has become a pariah among the world's wealthy nations. Interestingly, even though the United States had only achieved independence thirty years earlier, which should have required the new nation to join, only the hypocrisy of slavery's profitability would prevail. This, coupled with the external rejection of white domination and Haiti's determination for self-determination as a country of blacks, led to the complete political and economic isolation of the young nation from the rest...... middle of paper......ael; Heinl, Nancy Gordon (2005) [1996]. Written in Blood: The History of the Haitian People, 1492-1995 (2nd ed.). Lanham, Maryland; London: Univ. Press of America3. François Blancpain, a century of financial relations between Haiti and France (1825-1922) (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2001)66-674. Laurent Dubois, HAITI: the aftershocks of history, (New York: metropolitan books, 2012) 117-1185. The German Empire in Venezuela, 1871-1914, Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press.6. Laurent Dubois, HAITI: the aftershocks of history, (New York: metropolitan books, 2012) 186-877. Montague, Haiti, 148-49; Logan, Diplomatic Relations, 436,442, 447-48; Douglass, “Haiti and the United States. Interior History of the negotiations for the Môle Saint-Nicolas. I” 343-448. François Blancpain, a century of financial relations between Haiti and France (1825-1922) (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2001)66-67