Decode mode: the Ayiti chain, round two

SUMMARYDecode mode: the Ayiti chain, round two (Nov 4, 2026). Every item opened at its source unless marked.
RECORD, the 1806 embargo: "An Act to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United States, and certain parts of the island of St. Domingo," approved Feb 28, 1806 (9th Cong., ch. 9; 2 Stat. 351): bans all trade with the parts not under the "acknowledged government of France," that is, free Ayiti; one year, then continued. Two years after independence, and three after the U.S. got Louisiana out of Ayiti's victory.
RECORD, the contrast: President John Adams, proclamation of Sept 6, 1800, opened trade with the island's ports under "the Government of St. Domingo" (Toussaint's government), with passports signed by a U.S. consul. Adams traded with free Ayiti; Jefferson's Congress cut it off.
SECONDARY, primary still to pull: Jefferson told French chargé Louis-André Pichon (1801) that "nothing would be easier than [for us] to furnish your army and fleet with everything and to reduce Toussaint to starvation" (Thomas Fleming, A Disease in the Public Mind, via HNN 2013). Primary: Pichon's dispatch to Talleyrand, 1801, French foreign ministry archives.
RECORD (memoir), Napoleon gives up Louisiana: "It is not only New Orleans that I will cede; it is the whole colony, without any reservation" (to Barbé-Marbois, April 10, 1803; Marbois, The History of Louisiana, Philadelphia 1830). Hostile witness writing 27 years later.
RECORD, Ayiti remakes New Orleans: 5,754 refugees from Ayiti (pushed out of Cuba) landed in New Orleans within two months of May 1809, over 10,000 by early 1810, almost evenly thirds white, free people of color (3,042) and enslaved (3,000+); the city had about 8,000 people in 1805, so it roughly doubled, and its free population of color tripled (64 Parishes, "Refugee Revolution").
RECORD, the same dogs, the same war: Sara E. Johnson, "'You Should Give them Blacks to Eat'," American Quarterly 61:1 (2009): Rochambeau's April 1803 order to feed captured Black men to Cuban war dogs (from Madiou, Histoire d'Haïti, vol. 2, p. 555); the Vicomte de Noailles bought the dogs in Cuba (Ardouin, Études, vol. 5). The same Cuban dogs and handlers were used against Jamaica's Maroons in 1795 (Dallas, History of the Maroons, 1803: 104 dogs, 40 chasseurs) and against the Seminoles in Florida, 1835–1842 (33 dogs; Covington, Florida Historical Quarterly 1954; the 1848 lithograph "Hunting Indians in Florida with Bloodhounds," Library of Congress)

PATTERNone weapon, used on the Taíno (Las Casas, 1552), the Maroons of Jamaica, the Indigenous Army of Ayiti and the Seminoles of Florida. The empire treated them as one enemy.
RECORD, the ransom: Charles X's ordinance of April 17, 1825; President Boyer signed July 11, 1825, with 14 French warships and 500+ cannon offshore: 150 million francs, nearly twice what the U.S. paid for Louisiana (80 million); reduced in 1838; Haitians paid more than 112 million francs over seven decades, about $22–44 billion today (New York Times, 2022, via WLRN 2025).
STILL TO VERIFY: Henry Adams's line on the debt owed to Ayiti's fighters (History of the United States, vol. 1, ch. 15, "Toussaint Louverture," p. 377 in the contents); the public text we reached cuts off before that chapter

LENS (WW9)Ayiti won the war, the U.S. got the continent's center, and then the U.S. and France made Ayiti pay twice: an embargo in 1806 and a ransom in 1825.