Several thousand free blacks left for Haiti in the summer of 1824 and the flow continued until 1826 when the Haitian government stopped paying and defraying the transportation costs.

On July 28, 1915, the United States occupied Haiti and about 330 US Marines landed at the capital, Port-au-Prince on the authority of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson to safeguard the interests of U.S. corporations.

During the Duvalier dictatorship, many American businessmen came to Haiti with their families to start or run the assembly plants that sprang up there.

[4] In recent years, many Americans came to the country to work for international aid and relief agencies on development projects, or at hospitals and feeding stations.

Hundreds of young children born in New York City or Miami to parents who fled Haiti under the Duvaliers and their successors have chosen to return.