Haitian Resettlement of Free Slaves?

So, a question just popped into my head. Repatriation of American free slaves back to Africa was ridiculously unecomomical. But what about the chances of settling many American blacks in Haiti? It's the nearest "black republic" you can find
And would serve the purposes of many who wanted settlement as a solution. I realize it's very unlikely and probably Inhumane.
 
IIRC it was discussed, and Haiti was open to resettlement. I believe it boiled down to an issue of money with Haiti wanting to be paid.
 
IIRC it was discussed, and Haiti was open to resettlement. I believe it boiled down to an issue of money with Haiti wanting to be paid.

Coudnt the Us threaten to declare war on Haiti if they didn't accept or you just take a ton of African Americans and force off them off the boat at a port or at beach in Haiti
 

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They tried that during Boyer's regime. Didn't work out for the most part.

Granted you could try resettlement in a surviving Gran Colombia, Bolivar offered to have freed American slaves settle in the Ecuadorian Pacific Lowlands where there were barely any people living there. Venezuela is also another option.
 

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They tried that during Boyer's regime. Didn't work out for the most part.

Granted you could try resettlement in a surviving Gran Colombia, Bolivar offered to have freed American slaves settle in the Ecuadorian Pacific Lowlands where there were barely any people living there. Venezuela is also another option.

Black Americans especially at that time were extremely patriotic. To ask those who built the economy in their regions to leave en masse is foolhardy, freedom was to be fought in the homeland. Their sense of Americaness never faltered.

To this day Black Americans descendants call themselves such in D.R., as do Black Seminoles in Mexico, as do Americo-Liberians and many Black Nova Scotians.
 

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Black Americans especially at that time were extremely patriotic. To ask those who built the economy in their regions to leave en masse is foolhardy, freedom was to be fought in the homeland. Their sense of Americaness never faltered.
I don't exactly see why that would always be the case. Economic incentive is very powerful, and if proven to be a better livelyhood, I can't see why many would choose to remain in the squalor and humiliation of slavery and lower class conditions. They would receive land, equality under the law, and for the most part be left alone to practice their ways of life without much concern by the government (Until industrialization kicks then than the Central Government always gets obsessed with standardizing everything).

Should it be proven by those who leave that this is in fact a good deal and a successful expatriate community is established, why wouldn't many leave?

To this day Black Americans descendants call themselves such in D.R., as do Black Seminoles in Mexico, as do Americo-Liberians and many Black Nova Scotians.

Now where is that? Do your refer to the cocolos of Samana?
 
Black Americans especially at that time were extremely patriotic. To ask those who built the economy in their regions to leave en masse is foolhardy, freedom was to be fought in the homeland. Their sense of Americaness never faltered.

Us could just deport them :(
 
The US just fought a war over blacks (slavery), I somehow doubt threatening war on the Haitians to take more blacks would be particularly popular.

Additionally the forced deportation of millions of people would be a truly massive undertaking.
 

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I don't exactly see why that would always be the case. Economic incentive is very powerful, and if proven to be a better livelyhood, I can't see why many would choose to remain in the squalor and humiliation of slavery and lower class conditions. They would receive land, equality under the law, and for the most part be left alone to practice their ways of life without much concern by the government (Until industrialization kicks then than the Central Government always gets obsessed with standardizing everything).

Should it be proven by those who leave that this is in fact a good deal and a successful expatriate community is established, why wouldn't many leave?



Now where is that? Do your refer to the cocolos of Samana?
Samana of course. Some are even quite vocal about gaining US citizenship based on their American heritage.
Us could just deport them :(

Get ready for the deaths of tens of thousands of White Southerners then. How many white able bodied men were killed in the Civil War?

Let's be frank there were many instances just before the end and the next decade after the Civil War the black population could have absolutely erased entire white communities, towns and sections of cities.

Force them to leave en masse and you would have bloodshed, they had every right to be on the land.
 
Black Americans especially at that time were extremely patriotic. To ask those who built the economy in their regions to leave en masse is foolhardy, freedom was to be fought in the homeland. Their sense of Americaness never faltered.

Why were black Americans -- most of whom were enslaved -- so willing to identify with America?
 
They built the damn place.

Why wasn't that overruled by "Americans keep us in chains, made us slaves", etc?

I mean, one could say that Jews built their economies in Europe, and yet many of them had no problems eventually leaving. What about the American identity helped overrule the whole "they kept us as slaves" thing?
 

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Why wasn't that overruled by "Americans keep us in chains, made us slaves", etc?

I mean, one could say that Jews built their economies in Europe, and yet many of them had no problems eventually leaving. What about the American identity helped overrule the whole "they kept us as slaves" thing?

the culture of Ashkenazim always recognized that they are the people of another land, nationalism was discouraged and their faith/culture was maintained

Blacks in every new world nation are the results of hundreds of ethnic groups being stripped of their distinct cultural traits, creolized and forced to identify with the power group, having no sense of African homeland and forced to forget their homeland they therefore see their people as the people of the land.

That and they had every right to being born in the US for generations, bozales may have wanted to return but not criollos since there was no other place to return to.
 
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