Welcoming Freed Americans Boyer began encouraging freed Americans to emigrate back to the Republic of Haiti. The way in which he went about promoting this was by advertising in newspapers and by "promising free land and political opportunity to black settlers". This was not to benefit them however; this was to get skilled laborers to Haiti to benefit Jean Pierre Boyer. Haiti was treated as a "pariah" or as an outcast by other nations. It was feared that President Monroe would have been forced to "take action" against Haiti for not only agreeing to take in rebel slaves but suggesting and promoting it.

Pierre Boyer had actually made the effort to contact people within the United States of America, who had claimed that they wanted to work with the Haitian government to bring the displaced African Americans there. Boyer had sent agents to the black communities to convince them that Haiti was a sovereign state, which was open to all that looked to be truly free.

These actions were noticed by the American Colonization Society, who were looking to send and in the beginning processes of colonizing Liberia in Africa for the former slaves. Prior to learning about Boyer’s enthusiasm about emigrating other "lost" blacks in other countries, the organization had been trying to use a voluntary system, in which they would try to persuade former slaves to leave voluntarily. Loring Dewey had toured around the east coast in 1817, starting in New York. This process was ultimately a failure for both the organization and Dewey, who had figured that he would be able to remove close to 100,000 freed blacks within a 10 year span. With calculation continuing, they came to the conclusion that should they continue to remove freed and enslaved Africans, they would obliterate the African American population in America.

Dewey had abandoned the idea of colonization for emigration in his travels in New York. Meeting with a Haitian citizen, who argued that Haiti was ideal for emigration due to its weather conditions and the independent Negro government which governed the island, Dewey began to think of the idea of using Haiti to send the free blacks. Dewey began writing to Boyer at this time, asking if he was still interested in emigrating freed slaves to Haiti, posing them as an "unhappy lot". Almost immediately, Boyer had begun corresponding to Dewey, with the interest of his unhappy brothers and sisters in mind.

Boyer received a list of question to the regards of the Haitian government and its support of the incoming migrates from the A.C.S. He was confident that his government would be able to receive these people, but also saw that Dewey was trying to sneak in a few requests that Boyer smoothly responded to. One of these request concerned the finances of transporting the families to the Haiti, in which Dewey seemed to try and get Haiti to pay for most or all the transportation fees, which Boyer responded that the government would pay for those who cannot afford it, but the American Colonization Society would have to take care of the rest of the finances. This was a smart move since Haiti was already in debt to the French who were making the Haitian basically pay for their independence. Spending the millions of dollars to transport all of the families would have put the already in debt Haitians into further debt.

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