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I’ve seen a few threads here about moving the former slaves out west after the civil war during reconstruction similar to the exoduster movement. The problem is by that time their were already a good amount of whites out in the west that definetly didn’t want to have to compete for jobs with blacks. Aswell Southern elite didn’t want to lose their cheap labor. So I was wondering what if we backtrack a little bit?

The American colonisation society in 1825 seeing the failure of Liberia due to disease look for alternatives to move the free blacks. They also take note of the success of settlers that have gone with Stephen A Austin to Texas under liberal immigration laws of Mexico. A plan is resolved of instead of moving the free blacks back to Africa they are sent out west. The society buys up land in Alta California and sends its first 250 blacks to Alta California prolly the southern Arizona/New Mexico area where their is land to grow cotton. The free settlers are given land and most become farmers. As the communities grew larger in Alta California they spread further close to the coast diversifying into wine vineyards. With 300,000 free blacks at the time and many states that had laws outlawing free blacks(though not enforcing them) theirs a large population of settlers to pool. Maybe after Nat turners revolt states enforce these laws and a large boost of settlers occurs in the 1830s?

Anyway what do y’all think of this is? What would be the effects? Anyway this is just the background for this idea haven’t fleshed out what happens after. Bonus points for California republic.
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