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Freed Black shipped to Ile-a-vache with support of President Abraham Lincoln

Freed Black shipped to Ile-a-vache with support of President Abraham Lincoln

The possibility for Freed Black to live in the Haitian island Ile-à-Vache was a real possible solution contemplated to solve the the "Race problem" in the U.S.

In, 1863 President Abraham Lincoln encouraged the shipment of 453 freed slaves from Virginia to the Haitian island of Ile-a-Vache. They were mostly men and women from Virginia. The experiment failed due to inadequate planning and poor leadership. In less than a year, the survivors returned to the U.S. The island is located off the southern coast of Haiti, close to the town of Les Cayes.
Ile-a-Vache has its history of pirates including Captain Morgan, a British pirate who led several buccaneering expeditions across the Caribbean to attack Britain's enemies

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