"News from Washington: The Negro Colonization Scheme at an End for the Present – 3-5" Yet again the New York Times explains why "Negro Colonization" in Central America is a bad idea.
So the plan for Chiriquí Province, today in Panama, is cancelled, even though 13,700 freed blacks had applied to join.
Eventually, over 400 will sail for Île-à-Vache, an island off Haiti.
Very few will survive long enough to return a year later.
Recolonization did not end with the Civil War:
"The ACS [American Colonization Society, founded in 1816, dissolved in 1964] continued to operate during the American Civil War, and colonized 168 blacks during the conflict.
It sent 2,492 people of African descent to Liberia in the five years following the war.
The federal government provided a small amount of support for these operations through the Freedmen's Bureau.[69]"