Answer:
"We'll part with our tea" probably means that "I'll part with something fun".
Saint Dominque was a colony under French rule. Haiti is the independent nation that got their freedom from the french in a slave revolt. (Haiti used to be Saint Dominque)
<span>Thorough secret police spies, programs to give every peasant his own land</span>
They have been looked down upon for decades and possibly centuries. It had become a sort of a social norm in a sense to view them that way, hence all of the public opinion has shaped how we think of them today.