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- GLC#
- GLC03973
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 1864/02/01
- Author/Creator
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Title
- to Edwin M. Stanton
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 24.8 cm, Width: 19.8 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
Transport to return black colonists from Haiti. The colonists were freed slaves. In 1862, 450 African Americans were recruited to settle on the Island of Vache, off the coast of present-day Haiti. Small pox and mismanagement by a white government-appointed manager contributed to the colony's failure. The transport ship dispatched by President Lincoln picked up only 368 survivors.
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