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Poland cannot into colonies :(

The main problem is that Russian ports aren't really suited for this, even in later years - both their ports in the Baltic and the Black Sea could be closed off with far, far more ease than those of the British, Spanish and etc. ever could.

I don't think so. Personally, I think the most likely scenario after he doesn't reinstate slavery is eventual renewed war with Great Britain, and then interruption of communications with Hispaniola, leading to the island becoming de facto independent, possibly even followed by a de jure...

IIRC he did have plans to extend such a system to the whole of Hispaniola (as he had conquered the Spanish part of the island), but he never got around to actually doing that, as he was captured by Napoleon's troops.

Well, it is 50% for the administration of Saint-Domingue, which was quite autonomous. How much of it went to metropolitan France is another matter, which I wouldn't be able to answer. That is possible, but it's hard to judge the effect it could have actually had, specially since we don't know...

The island was already his, L'Ouverture still was under France, though he had great autonomy. Plantation owners (they didn't lose their properties in the island) lobbied Napoleon to reinstate slavery, so their profits would go up, and also for him to get rid of Toussaint, who established that...

I doubt the US could do anything about it in the end; the Haitians defeated France, Great Britain and Spain.

Not very hard. They just need to inherit sizable portions of territory, while keeping the capital in Liechtenstein.

The USA could annex Liberia at least. It would probably be easier for the USA to conquer another enclave from Spain, such as a coastal city in Galicia.

Do you mean a significant amount of territory or an enclave like Gibraltar?

And a bit exhausted as well. Plus, in 1860, France was still ahead of the USA in industrial production (France had 7.9% of world manufacturing while the USA had 7.2%). Furthermore, in 1860 the French army numbered 608,000 men, and though they couldn't all or even most be sent to the New World...

Would be interesting to see this develop into (or be the result of) an European war, with the USA, Prussia and Italy fighting France and a vengeful Austria.

If he sells most of Louisiana and keeps the southern part for France, he would no longer be blocking the American expansion to the west and as such, there might not be conflicts with the USA over what he keeps.

Toussaint didn't want independence, only the abolition of slavery, which the Jacobine regime had done. He was, in fact, seemingly devout to France, albeit also having a taste for the position of power he got himself into. From the constitution of the colony of Saint-Domingue (of 1801): There...

I think this is it. Make them keep the capital in Scotland even if not dominant, Scotland will become much more important within the UK than IOTL.