During the early 1800’s the U.S. also frequently contracted with the Haitian government to permit the migration of freed slaves to Haiti. The first such effort was started in 1817 and continued until 1863 when the Haitian government granted the U.S. permission to build a colony for ex slaves on an uninhabited island off its coast. They actually sent 500 liberated slaves there during the middle of the Civil War, but the colony was hit hard by a malaria outbreak in 1864 and had to be abandoned.
Hmmm, that sounds familiar -'was once'. Oh yeah, I remember now. Rhodesia was once the 'breadbasket' of Africa and South Africa was also quite well run.