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Both are may be so's. The real question is, can people act equal now or are they pretending?1862 AmericaActually he kept trying to get black to agree to move.
"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
Colonization was only popular among whites. Blacks opposed Lincolns idea.
In hindsight, slavery might have been a bad idea.
But ending slavery, without returning them to their native land was worse.
Who actually thought that slave owner descendants and slave descendants would simply say what the hell, let's pretend to be equal now?
The bad idea was slavery and the decision for whites to leave Europe and decide that this continent was willed to them by divine ordinance.