BLM is to be commended.
It has shown that this unpleasantness between two certain ethnicities is intractable.
Our 16th President (before he was elected) voiced this sentiment when he stated that the most humane solution was for the nation's two largest ethnicities (at that time) to live in separate nations.
Foner traces how Lincoln first supported this kind of colonization — the idea that slaves should be freed and then encouraged or required to leave the United States — for well over a decade. Like Henry Clay, Lincoln also supported repealing slavery gradually — and possibly compensating slave owners for their losses after slaves were freed.
It was not until the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared the freedom of all slaves and then named 10 specific states where the law would take effect, that Lincoln publicly rejected his earlier views.
Lincoln," says Foner. "[The abolishment of slavery is] immediate, not gradual. There is no mention of compensation and there is nothing in it about colonization. After the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln says nothing publicly about colonization."
Foner says many factors led to Lincoln's shift in his position regarding former slaves.
Neither slave owners nor slaves supported colonization. Slavery was beginning to disintegrate in the South. And the
Union Army was looking for new soldiers to enlist — and they found willing African-American men waiting for them in the South.
"As soon as the Union Army went into the South, slaves began running away from plantations to Union lines," Foner says. "And this forced the question of slavery onto the national agenda."
Abraham Lincoln always thought slavery was unjust — but struggled with what to do once slavery ended. Historian Eric Foner traces how Lincoln's thoughts about slavery — and freed slaves — mirrored America's own transformation in The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery.
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He always thought the slaves should be free, and the south looks like they thought they would win the civil war.
You are right, but he changed his mind, it was not that
two largest ethnicities (at that time) to live in separate nations and could not exist together. He was pondering what to do with the slaves and he decided to set them free.
But saying that it appears that most of the whites do not respect blacks.
