WI France Sold More Than Lousiana?

What if Napoleon decided to sell more than just Lousianna to the United States? The Americans claimed that they originally were paying ten million for New Orleans so what if Napoleon decided to get rid of Haiti (did it include all of Hispanolia at the time?) and some of the more valuable and valueless French possessions. What if he decided to use them as collateral for loans even, putting forth Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Guiana, Haiti, and the other sugar islands under American control so that he could clandeilly recieve money from it when the British would no doubt invade otherwise? Would he be able to chuck the Dutch possessions in for a few more million after confiscating the valuable things for himself? Would the Americans accept these and if so how would their defense and upkeep effect the War of 1812 and the possible attempts by the others to keep or retrieve them from the Americans?
 
List of French Possessions in the Americas at the time

Louisiana
St Pierre et Miquelon
French Guyana
Haiti (half of Hispaniola)
Some Carribean Islands including Dominica.
 
List of French Possessions in the Americas at the time

Louisiana
St Pierre et Miquelon
French Guyana
Haiti (half of Hispaniola)
Some Carribean Islands including Dominica.

I thought they had already lost Dominica to the British after the SYW. IIRC, the French Sugar Islands included Martinique, Guadaloupe, Tobago (though probably the British had retaken it) and half of Saint Martin. And Hipaniola was at least nominally entirely under French control after 1795; however, rule in the name of the french Republic was exerted by the former slave and Mulatto leadership, until Nappy sent Leclerc there to, basically, re-enslave them.
 
Indeed. When the army was decimated by malaria Napoleon gave up on his plans to colonize America and sold off Lousiana.

But did not sell Hispaniola, which would have avoided him some headaches. OTOH, Hispaniola was bound to be a headache for any power trying to control it a that point, unless it was someone OK with masses of free, enfranchised blacks. The US would have been rather unwilling to buy: it meant to buy a land full of free black Catholic (or worse) former slaves, that had proved able to fight off attampts at re-enslavement. Such a state would offer a VERY bad example for other slave-holding states in the eyes of plantocracies, o become a great drain to American resources is re-enslavement was attempted, move likely to cause much hostility in free states however.
 
Well St. Pierre and Miqueling would probably end up Canadian if the War of 1812 still happened. Also the USA would be more pro-slavery with the Caribbean I'm guessing. Unless Britain grabbed that too.
 
It depends on when the islands are sold. Slavery had been abolished in Martinique and Guadaloupe too, and it took some time to reinstate it under Napoleon. If Nappy sees it's better to sell, he could possibly do that without enforcing re-enslavement there, giving the US two free-soil territories. As said before, in that case the US may be less willing to buy.
 
Also, there could a problem in dealing with the Mulatto elites that had risen to prominence in several parts of the French Caribbean when the Revolution had enfranchised them. The situation was quite OK in the French gray-scale race hierarchy, much less in the Anglo-American binary one.
What I mean is that the Anglo colonies tended to class Mulattoes and blacks together: slave or free status was usually inherited from the mother. In Catholic colonies the sons of free whites and slave black mothers could be born free, though not equal in status with whites (not before the Revolution in French colonies).
 
But did not sell Hispaniola, which would have avoided him some headaches. OTOH, Hispaniola was bound to be a headache for any power trying to control it a that point, unless it was someone OK with masses of free, enfranchised blacks. The US would have been rather unwilling to buy: it meant to buy a land full of free black Catholic (or worse) former slaves, that had proved able to fight off attampts at re-enslavement. Such a state would offer a VERY bad example for other slave-holding states in the eyes of plantocracies, o become a great drain to American resources is re-enslavement was attempted, move likely to cause much hostility in free states however.

Understatement. No way is the US going to buy Haiti, even if France is willing to sell. I could see Guadalupe and Martinique, though I doubt France would sell them. Too valuable.
 
Understatement. No way is the US going to buy Haiti, even if France is willing to sell. I could see Guadalupe and Martinique, though I doubt France would sell them. Too valuable.

With a proper POD, that may be workable. But such a POD might require changes as far back as the French Revolution, American politics in that period. ACW or even the SYW. Or maybe changes in the Haitian Revolution. Not sure what would fit best.
 
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