The French government was confronting a slave rebellion in Haiti at the time President Thomas Jefferson negotiated with the French royalty the purchase of the Louisiana territory. France needed money for their military endeavors, to stop a slave rebellion, and the purchase led to the expansion of slavery in the United States of America.
I'm a Virginia historian and legal expert who is related to individuals who rode on the Mayflower ship, American founding father George Mason IV, three Union veterans from the U.S. Civil War, two of whom marched with General Sherman to Atlanta, two Confederate veterans, and President Theodore Roosevelt’s and Franklin Roosevelt’s family.
View all posts by Hamilton Historical Records
Hamilton Historical Records 