Abraham Lincoln sent former slaves to Haiti’s Île-à-Vache in colonization disaster
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on February 19, 2023
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On a mid-April day in 1863, hundreds of African Americans, hoping for better lives, boarded the Ocean Ranger at Fort Monroe in Virginia. The ship sailed away from a nation in the deep throes of the Civil War bound for Île-à-Vache, a small island of about 20 square miles off the southwestern coast of Haiti.
