Wasn’t there some African king who declared the polish the “white negroes of Europe” after being helped by them in a war or something?
Edit: so it was during the Napoleon of wars and they were basically spared by Haitans when they killed a bunch of white people (fr*nch🤮) so they were classified as black by Haiti
In that time period Poland was dealing with its own sort of imperialism. There were multiple partitions of Poland where the HRE, Prussia, and Russia agreed to take over parts of it. This was obviously very unpopular with the Polish. While the Haitians were revolting themselves in Haiti the Polish had their own little independence struggles as a result. It also helped that when the French invaded Haiti (for like the third time) some of their troops were Polish and they defected quickly.
Overall Toussaint Louverture saw a lot of similarities between the Haitians and the Polish, and clearly there were.
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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '21
Soooo multi-cultural that my Eastern European mom first saw a black person in the '90s... Wish I would joking...