Lincoln, in an address at Springfield, Illinois, on June 26, 1857:
A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation, but as immediate separation is impossible the next best thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together... Such separation, if ever affected at all, must be effected by colonization... The enterprise is a difficult one, but 'where there is a will there is a way;' and what colonization needs now is a hearty will. Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest. Let us be brought to believe it is morally right, and at the same time, favorable to, or at least not against, our interest, to transfer the African to his native clime, and we shall find a way to do it, however great the task may be. (Vol. II, pp. 408-9)
[#3Fan #1555] They weren't citizens. It wasn't any different than deporting Mexicans.
There were Africans in America before the Mayflower landed, and 244 years before the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Deportation of the Black race did not speak only of slaves but also of Free Blacks.
If one were to deport Mexicans, they would be deported to Mexico.
If -YOU- were to deport Blacks, to where would you deport them? Just some convenient spot on the continent of Africa? Haiti? Panama?
If -YOU- were to deport Whites, to where would you deport them? Just some convenient spot on the continent of Europe? Iceland, perhaps?
Would -YOU- deport ALL Latinos to Mexico? How about the non-Hispanics?
The Continental United States will fit into Africa about 9 times with a little space left over. Do you somehow conclude that all the Blacks in America came from ONE nation or ONE tribe?
HOW IS DEPORTING SOMEONE BASED ON THEIR FOREIGN NATIONALITY THE SAME AS DEPORTING SOMEONE BASED ON THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN???
One may not be deported just because one is not a citizen. If legally in the United States, a resident alien is not subject to deportation because he or she is black or brown or yellow, or even polka dot. If legally in the United States, a resident alien is not subject to deportation because he or she is Mexican.
Tenga un buen dia, amigo.