American States in the Caribbean?

Without the Compromise of 1850, the opportunities for creating slave states would run out as the available territory got filled up. There was interest IOTL for grabbing Cuba, other islands, and Nicaragua, all as slave states in order to balance out the free-slave state balance.
 
If memory serves me correctly the Bahamas were occupied by Spain during the ARW and in the post war was in one of those places that if the Americans pushed for it, the British may have conceded it.

Of course come War of 1812, it may be taken back and the US would almost certainly view the war as a loss (its considered a tie or victory by most Americans)

The Bahamas was occupied by the Spanish, for one year, [1782-3] during the ARW. The Spanish garrison in Nassau surrendered to a small force of American loyalists and Bahamian millitia, led by Col. Andrew Deveaux, in 1783. In the years after the war, thousands of loyalists, including some of my ancestors, came from the mainland. Most didn't stay here for too long, but they were a potent political force while they were here, and would have been very opposed to any sort of political union with the 'rebels'.
The Bahamas are generally pro-American, but I can't think of any POD where the British would be willing to give them up. Maybe a victorious CSA, with Britain as its ally, might come to dominate the area, and as is sometimes the case with Cuba in CSA victory TLs, could maybe adopt the islands as another state, but not much here then, pop. 50k max. at that time.
 
The Bahamas where were the Loyalists in Bermuda sent the 'wingnuts' of their day, the Puritans and so forth. Honestly, I think the only reason that the Bahamas did not fall to America is due to the fact that there was no charter of the original thirteen colonies that included the Bahamas.

In an ATL maybe Georgia?
 
The Bahamas where were the Loyalists in Bermuda sent the 'wingnuts' of their day, the Puritans and so forth. Honestly, I think the only reason that the Bahamas did not fall to America is due to the fact that there was no charter of the original thirteen colonies that included the Bahamas.

In an ATL maybe Georgia?

The first English settlers came to the Bahamas, via Bermuda, in about 1648. Whether they were 'wingnuts' or not is open to debate, but they were certainly NOT loyalists. the loyalist period was over 100 years later.
In 1670, the islands were granted by the Crown to the Lords Proprietors, a group of businessmen, who had ties to the Carolinas. The enterprise in the Bahamas failed; they did not make any money, thus they abandoned the whole project, and the islands gradually became a lawless pirate hangout. Had the deal with the Proprietors worked out better, perhaps the islands would have been drawn more into an orbit with the colonies in the Carolinas.
 
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