 The contract also guaranteed that he would protect the Haitian state, and that he would not have to pay import duties on the supplies that he imported.During the same period, the United States was embroiled in the American Civil War and President Lincoln, who was in favor of the abolition of slavery, was considering plans to establish "colonies" of emancipated slaves in countries like New Granada and Liberia where they could live and work.He even offered $50 to anyone who took a black person abroad and gave him a job there.