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TIL in 1862, Bernard Kock, after visiting the World Fair in London, impressed by the quality of cotton from Haiti, developed a plan to send emancipated slaves to Île-à-Vache in Haiti. He went directly to President Lincoln to propose it. It was scrapped after signing the Emancipation Proclamation.

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