He was looking for a way to right a wrong at least cost and pain.
Since they had been stolen from their own land, he proposed to either return them to the land they were stolen from, or give them a land of their own. That might not have been such a bad thing, giving them their own country.
It didn’t work out. That doesn’t make it a bad idea.
Pretty much what I was going to say. Thanks.
Lincoln proposed something and asked for volunteers. Yet Gates presents this as some sort of racist compulsion. AFAIK, Lincoln never once proposed making colonization compulsory. The same, unfortunately, cannot be said of various other proponents of colonization such as Jefferson.
I’d also like Gates, or anybody else, to point to a single statement Lincoln made in this sales pitch that wasn’t 100% true at the time, and indeed that continues to be true to this day.