Aside from Cuba which was no stranger to slavery to begin with, the rest was an unlikely long shot at best. Try again.
Sorry. You try again. And read some history. I recommend "Battle Cry of Frreedom" by Dr. James McPherson. It won the Pullitzer prize. Pay special attention to Chapter 3: "An Empire for Slavery.":
"During 1856 hundreds of would-be planters took up land grants in Nicaragua. In August, Pierre Soule himself arrived in Walker's capital and negotiated a loan for him from New Orleans bankers. The "grey- eyed man of destiny," as the press now described Walker, needed this kind of help. His revolution was in trouble. The other Central American countries had formed an alliance to overthrow him. They were backed by Cornelius Vanderbilt, whom Walker had angered by siding with an anti-Vanderbilt faction in the Accessory Transit Company. The president of Nicaragua defected to the enemy, whereupon Walker installed himself as president in July 1856. The Pierce administration withdrew its diplomatic recognition. Realizing that southern backing now represented his only hope, Walker decided "to bind the Southern States to Nicaragua as if she were one of themselves," as he later put it. On September 22, 1856, he revoked Nicaragua's 1824 emancipation edict and legalized slavery again.
This bold gamble succeeded in winning southern support. "No movement on the earth" was as important to the South as Walker's, proclaimed one newspaper. "In the name of the white race," said another, he "now offers Nicaragua to you and your slaves, at a time when you have not a friend on the face of the earth." The commercial convention meeting at Savannah expressed enthusiasm for the "efforts being made to introduce civilization in the States of Central America, and to develop these rich and productive regions by the introduction of slave labor."
-- "Battle Cry of Freedom" pp.113-114 by James McPherson
I think you know all this, you'd just rather push Soviet style disinformation.
Walt
Thanks but no thanks. $11.99 is way too much to pay for a role of Soviet-quality toilet paper.
It won the Pullitzer prize.
So did Maureen Dowd for that matter. In fact, I'm not so sure I consider getting a prize named after history's most famous yellow journalist to be very honorable at all.