QuiteNo one is going to pay for that.
Quite
Indeed, they founded Liberia and moved a few thousand blacks.
Now figure out where the money's coming from for MILLIONS.
Not going to happen.
There are a few ways to get a mostly Black-free US. 1) don't bring nearly as many over. 2) Industrial scale genocide. 3) have the CSA split off and have the borders thoroughly patrolled to keep blacks out of the Union.
All of them involve a very different US. None of them involve shipping millions across the Atlantic.
Can anyone think of a scenario where slavery would be abolished in the US but at the same time most people of African decent sent back to Africa as a compromise?
No. In the first place, hardly any of them wanted to go. In the second place, few white Southerners wanted to send them; they were the main labor force in the Deep South.
One remote possibility: the Radical Republicans are in charge of Reconstruction from the beginning, and enforce black voting. This produces a backlash as lurid stories of black misrule in the South inflame racist attitudes in the North; also migration of blacks upsets the labor market.
The Democrats gain control in the 1868 elections, and disfranchise blacks, but it becomes clear that if Republicans ever get in again they will restore the black franchise; and whites in the South are fearful of restored black rule. A racist-populist alliance forms... Black removal is promoted to clear plantation land for white yeoman farmers.
Throw in a current of nativist racism left over from the Know-Nothings, and one might get enough political energy for a mass transportation program.
An early CSA wins. Tthe economy collapses in the 1890's. Fascist/Communist esque movements rise in populaorty among poor whites. They blame the blacks for being cheap labour (slaves). A revolution takes place. A Hitler-like/Featherson dictator gets in to power and just like OTL Hitler he removes all the undesireables out of the CSA, primarily into Africa but also to the Caribbean and Mexico. By 1910 they are all gone. As the poor whites dont actually become more wealthier now that all blacks are gone a civil war within the CSA breaks out. With no side quickly winning the country is destroying itself and the USA gets refugees. The rump USA, now filled leftist labour immigrants from Europe and heavily industrialised, decides to end the warhole south of them and invades the CSA, which gets recontructed heavily and after 50 years is re-admitted to the USA. Blacks make up less than 1% in this ATL USA.
No. In the first place, hardly any of them wanted to go. In the second place, few white Southerners wanted to send them; they were the main labor force in the Deep South.
One remote possibility: the Radical Republicans are in charge of Reconstruction from the beginning, and enforce black voting. This produces a backlash as lurid stories of black misrule in the South inflame racist attitudes in the North; also migration of blacks upsets the labor market.
The Democrats gain control in the 1868 elections, and disfranchise blacks, but it becomes clear that if Republicans ever get in again they will restore the black franchise; and whites in the South are fearful of restored black rule. A racist-populist alliance forms... Black removal is promoted to clear plantation land for white yeoman farmers.
Throw in a current of nativist racism left over from the Know-Nothings, and one might get enough political energy for a mass transportation program.
Even then, I think that there will be an argument it's easier and cheaper to use them to settle the west.
You could techinally get this if blacks were settled in "black homelands" in the west and south that were de jure not part of the U.S.
That is far more likely, nominally independent "black homelands".
Even then, I think that there will be an argument it's easier and cheaper to use them to settle the west.
Can anyone think of a scenario where slavery would be abolished in the US but at the same time most people of African decent sent back to Africa as a compromise?
You could techinally get this if blacks were settled in "black homelands" in the west and south that were de jure not part of the U.S.