Plausible Free African Immigration to Latin America?

Whitening the country was the goal, but, of course, money is the real goal. Brazil "imported" Japanese people making it the largest Japanese diaspora in the world. There was also a surge of migration of Afro-Barbadians to the Brazilian Amazon as they were seem as superior to the locals, because they had British education. But Japan and Barbados are overpopulated islands with this great push effect. In Africa, on the contrary, there simply weren't enough hands to exploit the local resources (partialy due to the negative effects of centuries of slave trade), there's absolutely no reasonable explanation to depopulate an already depopulated place, unless if it's by forceful migration, aka slavery.
 
The issue with this is the bolded statement. Blacks and mulattos have never viewed themselves as a common interest group. The history of Haiti immediately post revolution was characterized by black/mulatto power struggles until the later 19th when mulatto power solidified, and then the Duvalier regime is often perceived as being the latest iteration of blacks/noiristes seizing power from mulattos. We don't even speak the same language. While I have made a conscious effort to speak Creole, no one else in my family speaks any Creole besides the small amount needed to communicate with domestic labor. This is despite being in a country where 95%+ of the population speaks only Creole. Mixed-race Haitians simply don't view Creolophones as being important enough to speak to. And from the black perspective the mulattos are definitely viewed as a foreign group of people, a saying in Creole "Li pale franse" literally means "He speaks French" but figuratively means "He's a pretentious piece of shit." Given the history of blacks and mulattos in Haiti to me I perceive a proposed black/mulatto power class as being like suggesting a mixed Tutsi/Hutu upper class.

I think it's worth pondering how much of these existing divisions were exacerbated by the extreme suffering and deprivation Haiti experienced after the attempted Napoleonic reconquest. As a country, Haiti has been continually screwed over for pretty much its entire existence and didn't have a great base to start with. There's a lot of evidence supporting the idea that in times of deprivation, group boundaries become much more important and conflict between groups becomes much more prevalent. From what I've read, there doesn't seem to have been a whole lot of open mulatto/black conflict under Toussaints rule. Even the War of the Knives wasn't simply the black/mulatto conflict it's often painted as:

With relentless determination, the black general drove his forces to conquer his rival ’ s strongholds. He was careful not to convert the conflict into a straightforward race war; some mixed - race officers continued to serve in Toussaint ’ s forces, while others remained neutral. Toussaint ’ s relations with the United States paid off: armed American ships blockaded the ports in the South Province, depriving Rigaud ’ s forces of supplies.

The conflict, known as the “ war of the knives, ” was fought with great brutality on both sides; captives were often tortured and killed with bayonets, and as many as 4,000 people may have starved to death during the four - month siege of the southern port of Jacmel, where a future president of post - revolutionary Haiti, Alexandre Pétion, commanded the defense. In his public proclamations, Toussaint insisted that he was only fighting Rigaud and his supporters, not the entire group of men of mixed race, and promised to protect all those who came over to his side. He professed to be shocked by the violence used by his main field commander, General Dessalines.

(A Concise History of the Haitian Revolution page 97)

The “War of the South,” as the conflict is usually called, is often presented as a racial conflict pitting Louverture’s black army against Rigaud’s free-coloreds. Before the revolution the south was a bastion for wealthy free-coloreds such as the Raimond family, and Rigaud was a member of this social group. Under his regime free-coloreds had filled posts as officers and had gained access to many of the abandoned properties in the south. There were, therefore, consistent tensions between the free-coloreds and the former slaves whose lives they governed and whose labor they often controlled. Although these tensions were driven primarily by the economic differences between the groups, given that so many of the wealthy and powerful in the region were of mixed European and African descent, while those they controlled were not, it was easy for former slaves to see racism at work. In the north, meanwhile, most of Louverture’s highest-ranking officers were entirely of African descent, and many had been slaves when they revolted in 1791. The contrast between the two leadership groups makes it tempting to see their conflict as primarily a race war.

In fact, however, there was quite a bit of diversity on both sides. There were many free-coloreds and whites who fought with Louverture’s forces during the war, and some of them distinguished themselves for their ferocity against Rigaud’s partisans. And there were also ex-slave leaders who, disenchanted with Louverture’s regime, and particularly with his close ties to returning white planters, took advantage of the war to strike out against his regime. In the north, several ex-slave officers supported Rigaud during uprisings against Louverture, notably Pierre Michel, who had helped to suppress the Villatte uprising in Le Cap in 1796. In the west the African born Lamour Desrances, who controlled mountain areas around Port-au Prince, also sided with Rigaud. The war cannot be explained simply as a conflict between two racial groups.2

(Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution page 232)

I'm not saying that there would immediately be a racial paradise-for example, even though both Rigaud and Louverture denied racial aspects to the war, Louverture did use racial appeals to rally his followers and even condemned "free men of colour in general" after some uprisings by FmoC in the north. There were absolutely still tensions between the groups. However, this didn't stop Toussaint from filling his administration with both whites and mulattoes (if anything, the welcoming back of emigre whites is even more incredible than working with Mulattoes!) and letting free men of colour occupy leading positions in his army. I think it's very likely that without the prolonged brutality Haiti had experienced after Napoleons reconquest, tensions between whites, blacks, and mulattoes could be kept from erupting into open conflict. Even if the groups don't view themselves as part of a common interest group, they could still work together to rule St.Domingue.
 

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OTL Ecuador was an recipient of a small, steady flow of Afro-Caribbean (predominately Jamaican) immigrants. The Ecuadorian government at the time attempted several measures to incentivize immigration to the (then) underpopulated coastal provinces, including Esmeraldas. The land was subletted to foreign companies who would then bring workers to tend to the land. At the same time, the Ecuadorian government wanted workers for the construction of a railroad which never did quite pan out. So you wouldn't necessary need immigrants who are simultaneously wealthy and destitute to want to move to Ecuador.
 
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