Haiti become one of the US States

Is there any way the Repbulcians in the aftermath of the Civil War could have persuaded Haiti to join the Union.

From their perspective it would be a black majority and (for the future forseeable from then- guaranteed Republican)
 
Is there any way the Repbulcians in the aftermath of the Civil War could have persuaded Haiti to join the Union.

From their perspective it would be a black majority and (for the future forseeable from then- guaranteed Republican)

I'm not too sure about the attitudes of Haiti's leaders at this point, but the big question is "why"? What advantage to either side in having an island of dirt poor Francophone and highly-independent people brought into an already unstable racist and just-post-slavery Republic only beginning to recover from its greatest crisis? It'd frankly reignite rebellion in both nations as the majority of southerners (who OTL were willing to settle down and move on) flock to the KKK banner in light of the Republican's "obvious intent" to make the US a "Negro nation", and as Haitians return to Maroonism in the face of their leaders' resubmitting them to the "Blanc Domination" they fought so hard to escape. Recipie for disaster, IMO. I'm afraid not even the most radical of Republicans would even suggest such a plan.
 
maybe hati when it had all of Hispaniola could petition to be a state, all the african americans recently freed from slavery could be moved there, with the full support of the South and Racists in the North
 
How about this?

Instead of buying Alaska, the US looks south and agrees to annex The Dominican Republic (in OTL the treaty nearly passed but died in the Senate) intending to use it as a colony site for thousands of newly freed slaves. However American rule doesn't go over too well and before long an insurgency is in operation on the American side of the island.

Key to the Dominican insurgency are supplies and ammunition from Haiti. Given the latter's near constant instability and their support for the Insurgency I wouldn't be surprised if the pro-American population of the island "convinces" the Federal Government to intervene and "stabilize" Haiti which they could do. Eventually the island is unified and remains an American territory well into the 20th century with the insurgency gradually dying down over time.
 
How about this?

Instead of buying Alaska, the US looks south and agrees to annex The Dominican Republic (in OTL the treaty nearly passed but died in the Senate) intending to use it as a colony site for thousands of newly freed slaves. However American rule doesn't go over too well and before long an insurgency is in operation on the American side of the island.

Key to the Dominican insurgency are supplies and ammunition from Haiti. Given the latter's near constant instability and their support for the Insurgency I wouldn't be surprised if the pro-American population of the island "convinces" the Federal Government to intervene and "stabilize" Haiti which they could do. Eventually the island is unified and remains an American territory well into the 20th century with the insurgency gradually dying down over time.

This is about the best and only hope for the OP. Good call, FL.

Of course the US may be facing maroon insurgency for a long time coming. The US has gotten away with our periodic military interventions in Haiti since we tend to leave after a few months. ITTL we're ovbiously here to stay, and the...ahem...less than stellar regard for Blacks in the US from the POD through OTL WW2, even among emancipationists, is not going to sit well with a people whose entire national foundation story is freeing themselves from White Opression. The highlands of Hispaniola are a hard place to fight with modern tech...with 19th C. tech it's even worse. Once "voodoo" stories start filtering back as they did OTL in the 1920s (and the Vodou bizangos are going to be paramount in the insurgency or at least so much a part of highland life that US troops won't see a distinction) it's going to approach culture war of the ugliest sort.
 
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