Freedmans Icebox

Would it be plausible that freed slaves get their "forty acres and a mule" land grants in Alaska after Seward buys it in 1867.Abolitionists,Racists might support it for their own reasons,freed slaves,a good number anyway,might say ENOUGH,and want out of white America.Of course trouble starts when it's found that Alaska is far from worthless.
 
No.

You might get more New England Whalers of African descent to migrate there and maintain community.

Itd be interesting to have black-wampanoag/indigenous communities who were often sailors perpetuate a tribal identity within black sailor settlements and/or assimilate into Inuit clan structures.
 
Alaska doesn't have much arable land, so the "forty acres and a mule" wouldn't work there, and moving African-Americans to what was then a desolate wasteland would not be taken well by the Radical Republicans. If they wanted to get out of "white America", the best place would probably be Liberia, where it would probably be easier/cheaper to take them since they ocean travel is much quicker and easier than land travel.

That being said, the scenario would be interesting. Perhaps the African-Americans would ingratiate themselves with Inuit or even Russian cultures. This might lead to a breakaway of Alaska from the US sometime in the next century, since Alaska is so culturally different than the rest of America.
 
No.

You might get more New England Whalers of African descent to migrate there and maintain community.

Itd be interesting to have black-wampanoag/indigenous communities who were often sailors perpetuate a tribal identity within black sailor settlements and/or assimilate into Inuit clan structures.
I could see that,there was a substantial community of those seamen in the Vineyard,Nantucket and New Bedford
 
I could see that,there was a substantial community of those seamen in the Vineyard,Nantucket and New Bedford

OTL some New England based American Blacks and Cape Verde migrated up there for a few years or even permanently.

There is an interview from the grandaughter of a Cape Vedean American settler that assimilated into the westernized Inuit community up there even.
 
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