It had rapidly recovered from the disaster of the French Revolution and lacked only capital and education which the United States under these circumstances could furnish.

Furthermore, it was argued that something in this direction should be immediately done, as European nations then seeking to establish friendly relations with the islands, would secure there commercial advantages which the United States should have and could establish by sending to that island free Negroes especially devoted to agriculture.
In 1836, Z.Kingsley, a Florida planter,[2l] actually undertook to carry out such a plan on a small scale.

He established on the northeast side of Hayti, near Port Plate, his son, George Kingsley, a well-educated colored man of industrious habits and uncorrupted morals, together with six "prime African men," slaves liberated for that express purpose.

There he purchased for them 35,000 acres of land upon which they engaged in the production of crops indigenous to that soil.
Hayti, however, was not to be the only island to get consideration.

In 1834 two hundred colored emigrants went from New York alone to Trinidad, under the superintendence and at the expense of planters of that island.
It was later reported that every one of them found employment on the day of arrival and in one or two instances the most intelligent were placed as overseers at the salary of $500 per annum.