The boy was afterwards pensioned by the French government, and died in Haiti in 1825.
Unfortunately, life in Haiti is difficult for its residents as political unrest and high unemployment continue to plague the country.
Aristide also withstood objections from the American aid agency USAid and Haiti's domestic business class to raise the country's measly minimum wage.
One truth that cannot be denied is that Haiti's traditional power brokers have now removed the former Catholic priest Aristide from office twice.
Besides travelling through many states of the United States to deliver anti-slavery lectures, Lundy visited Haiti twice - in 1825 and 1829, the Wilberforce colony of freedmen and refugee slaves in Canada in 1830-1831, and in 1832 and again in 1833 Texas, all these visits being made, in part, to find a suitable place outside the United States to which emancipated slaves might be sent.
