Plausibility check: slave repatriation to the Caribbean

In a ARW-averted timeline, how plausible is it that African Americans on the continental mainland could be transported to British Caribbean islands, such as Jamaica or Cuba after emancipation?
 
Where? The only real candidate is Hispaniola(unless your talking the repatriation happening after a conquest of Cuba), and there's not enough room there.
 
Given that moving slaves around was outlawed before slavery in the Empire I am not sure what you mean.

If it is that the slaves are freed in 1840 (after the six years of indentured apprentiship) then they are free to move wherever they want to. However the problem will be money. By this time the sugar production has peaked and they had too many people on the Caribean islands as it was.

It is possible that the Navy could be asked to arrange ships to take people to Africa, if the Abolitionists remained a power in British politics.
 
Given that moving slaves around was outlawed before slavery in the Empire I am not sure what you mean.

Ah, this is an interesting point. Was the moving of slaves around illegal, or was it just the international trading of them? i.e. if there was no monetary exchange involved, would it be illegal under the terms of the 1807 act?

If it is that the slaves are freed in 1840 (after the six years of indentured apprentiship) then they are free to move wherever they want to.

I was thinking it might be possible for some status that is not slave but not fully free. So they were technically free men, but they did not have the rights of white men, and the government could decide to force them to migrate.

However the problem will be money. By this time the sugar production has peaked and they had too many people on the Caribean islands as it was.

Given the racism of the southern states, they may have been willing to pay for the export of their black populations just to be rid of them. It would be a lot cheaper to export them to the Caribbean than Africa. Given the sugar industry was on the way out, the Government might just decide to write off these islands economically, and use them as a dumping ground for unwanted blacks. Sure, the overpopulated living conditions for black people would be horrible, but that's not the sort of thing that would worry Westminster too much.
 
In a ARW-averted timeline, how plausible is it that African Americans on the continental mainland could be transported to British Caribbean islands, such as Jamaica or Cuba after emancipation?

The majority of the now free blacks would not want to go. No one would be willing to pay to send them.
 
The majority of the now free blacks would not want to go. No one would be willing to pay to send them.

The British seemed quite willing to force other populations to move around the empire. Many Southern racist firebreathers were pretty keen on repatriation to Africa - would they really not be willing to pay to have a (more) racially pure state?
 
It was a dream of the Grant Administration to unify the island of Haity under US stewardship and the settlement of all the slaves there.

The Grant Administration tried several times to get Santa Domingo from Spain in order to effect this.

I don't believe they wanted to expel them or force them there, but to have it as a state of their own.
 
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