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How could Louisiana have avoided being purchased and annexed by the United States?


The biggest issue is population: Americans will simply move in and outnumber folks in Louisiana.

I think holding on to all of Louisiana is unlikely. At the very least, the north of the territory would have to be sold to the United States (Missouri River Boundary + 40th parallel perhaps?).

Inviting freedmen, runaway slaves, and anti-US Native Americans would be one good way to boost population.
Using Louisiana as a penal colony is another means.

Rather than attempting to reconquer and reenslave Haiti, maybe Napoleon opts to recompense slave owners via providing them with lands in Louisiana. Meanwhile the French try to resettle Haitians and Dominicans in Louisiana by saying that if they live in Hispanola they have to pay taxes but if they relocate to Louisiana they do not (for the first few years).
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