[choctaw man]

“For the sake of your race, you should sacrifice something of your present comfort for the purpose of being as grand in that respect as the white people,” Lincoln said, promoting his idea of colonization: resettling blacks in foreign countries on the belief that whites and blacks could not coexist in the same nation.”

We cannot know the tension, pressures, and political leanings of that time, except by secondary sources. Perhaps Abe was just being honest.

[elpadre]

If this factual, then I suspect he was of the opinion the former slaves would want to be returned to their African homes from which they had been ripped away from by Obama’s ancestors who kidnapped them and sold them to the slavers..

- hardly racist - just the opposite

[max americana]

There was a quote in the book “the UN-PC history of the Civil War” that Lincoln stated that saving the slaves was “last” of his concerns as long as the union was saved.

[Aevery_Freeman]

...resettling blacks in foreign countries on the belief that whites and blacks could not coexist in the same nation.

What a foolish notion in light of how easily we have integrated.

< /SARC>

[passionfruit]

I haven’t read all the posts yet, but there was a movement among blacks to leave too, and they did, and founded the African nation of Liberia.

[passionfruit]

I haven’t read all the posts yet, but there was a movement among blacks to leave too, and they did, and founded the African nation of Liberia.

[passionfruit]

I haven’t read all the posts yet, but there was a movement among blacks to leave too, and they did, and founded the African nation of Liberia.