WI Haiti became a US territory after the Haitian revolution?
Depends, best bet is right when Revolution takes place and French white residents make appeals to Americans in south to encourage US to step in. More powerful and expansionist US from Revolution upwards helps.
No way in hell US in this era would trust a island full of illiterate slaves in revolt become citizens. The white French citizens and maybe some mixed people too but that’s it. The rest likely get re enslaved and sold and scattered across US slave states for good measure basically depopulating island for time. Pulling down revolt and re enslavement of rebels will be bloodbath and likely off put not just Europeans in its brutality but northerners too. Basically involvement depends on southern political bloc being able to at least get north support “expeditions” and military involvement mostly involving south states themselves. Virginia is still one of most influential states during time. The north does not out class south especially wealth wise until mass industrialization.
If they win, big emphasis on if, the one plus that comes out of this is slavery and racism in south and Americas are 10 times less bad in long run.
The massacre, rape, and genocide of white and even mixed populations in Haitian Revolution did not leave good memory or statement for “first black republic”. It actually only reinforced worse fears, racism, and biases. The US south reaction one example of this. The “fear of second Haiti” a common propaganda point used by people who support institutions of slavery or not trust blacks with equality. Haiti was biggest slave revolt since Spartacus and one of only successful ones in human history. Most slave revolts usually end in slaughter of slaves and execution of ring leaders. Haiti is exception but Haiti got isolated from world and left to rot after its revolution and failed reconquest by French.
Not many “good” routes here but they did literally named place after hell/death/underworld.
