And then, when some of the lucky destined for America during the 1860s arrived in America, Lincoln pulled them off the ships and forced the men into the War between the States fighting for the Union.
Dear God, what a miserable world: from literal starvation by the Brits to enslavement by the Americans.
"This is suspicious at best. Sounds like a bunch of nutty conspiracy theorists, or, as others have pointed out, a government program to find nutty conspiracy theorists who could be dangerous."