1862
1862: President Abraham Lincoln extended official diplomatic recognition to Haiti during the American Civil War after the secession of southern states.
1862: President Abraham Lincoln extended official diplomatic recognition to Haiti during the American Civil War after the secession of southern states. This act ended decades of U.S. non-recognition and facilitated the exchange of formal diplomatic representatives between the two countries.
Source · p. 194
Gaffield, Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World, 194