Every group that came her was seen as inferior. Most treated as work slaves. African Americans had an extra cross to bear. We only watch movies on how they were treated. And of course we never have gotten who were the actual people and their names who financed the ships, the captains of the ships, along with the information we have been told that seems to be one way as to color of the meanies.I think he probably considered blacks an alien inferior race. Almost every American at the time did. They had similar views about women and Indians1862 AmericaActually he kept trying to get black to agree to move.That was a common idea back then
What do we do with all these free slaves?
Setting up their own country was a common solution
Lincoln quickly learned it was unworkable and dropped the idea
"I have urged the colonization of the Negroes [back to Africa], and I shall continue. My Emancipation Proclamation was linked with this plan [of colonization]. There is no room for two distinct races of White men in America, much less for two distinct races of Whites and Blacks.
I can think of no greater calamity than the assimilation of the Negro into our social and political life as our equal. Within twenty years we can peacefully colonize the Negro...under conditions in which he can rise to the full measure of manhood. This he can NEVER do here [in America]. We can never attain the ideal Union our fathers dreamed, with millions of an alien, INFERIOR RACE among us, whose assimilation is neither possible nor desirable."
Abraham Lincoln
September 1862
Colonization of former slaved had been tried in Liberia and was a popular solution. Lincoln did not invent it
Lincoln was right about Negroes assimilating in our society. The problem was not the blacks but the whites who didn’t want to interact with them
As it was, it took another 100 years before whites allowed them to integrate
True. He did not "invent" the idea, but it is apparent by his words, that he viewed the slaves as an "alien, inferior race".
Of course it is pure speculation, however, had he not been assassinated we likely would have seen his actions support his sentiments. JMO.
But Lincoln was strongly opposed to the idea of human bondage at a time most Americans weren’t