Lincoln's plans are already drawn up. Blow the dust off the paper and give it to Noem. It'll be quicker now.
---Lincoln was fervently making plans to send all freed slaves to the jungles of Central America once the Civil War was over---
The debate over whether states should allow the Confederate battle flag in close proximity to their state capitol -- rei
www.politifact.com
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How a Movement to Send Formerly Enslaved People to Africa Created Liberia
Starting 50 years before the end of slavery, the American Colonization Society moved 12,000 people from America to West Africa.
Starting 50 years before the end of slavery, the American Colonization Society moved 12,000 people from America to West Africa.
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The biggest question facing the leaders of the United States in the early 19th century was what to do about slavery. Should it continue or should the U.S. abolish it? Could the country really be home to free Black people and enslaved black people at the same time? And if the U.S. ended slavery, would freed men and women remain in the country or go somewhere else?
Many white people at this time thought the answer to that last question was to send free Black Americans to Africa through “colonization.” Starting in 1816, the American Colonization Society—which counted future presidents
James Monroe and
Andrew Jackson among its members—sought to create a colony in Africa for this purpose.
This was 50 years before the U.S. would abolish slavery. Over the next three decades, the society secured land in West Africa and shipped people to the colony, which became the nation of Liberia in 1847.
The society spent its first few years trying to secure land in West Africa. In 1821, it made a deal with local West African leaders to establish a colony at Cape Mesurado. The strip of land was only
36 miles long and three miles wide (today,
Liberia stretches over 38,250 square miles) The next year, the society began sending free people—often groups of families—to the colony. Over the next 40 years, upwards of 12,000 freeborn and formerly enslaved Black Americans immigrated to Liberia.
Commentary:
So it wasn't Lincoln who conceived the idea of returning Blacks to South Africa, but good old Andrew Jackson a Democrat.
