As opposed to a racist slave owner?
Moreover, I think Lincoln's view on colonization had changed due to the fact that Blacks did not want to go back to Africa.
And Lincoln would not force them to do so.
So much for your racist nonsense.
Is there truly that much of a difference? One placed blacks in the sole custody of a white master here and made them work. The other, as I have shown from Lincoln's contract, tried to do virtually the same thing to blacks only in Panama. In either case the blacks were screwed.
Moreover, I think Lincoln's view on colonization had changed due to the fact that Blacks did not want to go back to Africa.
There is no evidence of that and in fact only three days before his assassination Lincoln held a meeting at the White House to devise a plan for the first shipment of blacks to Panama. They were supposed to go there and build him a canal.
And Lincoln would not force them to do so.
Incorrect. Lincoln realized that he could not force civilian blacks to leave and that ordering them to do so would probably be fruitless. He knew, however, that there were almost two hundred thousand blacks in the army, which he could order to do anything he wanted. With the war over he planned to order them down to Panama as part of a "military" activity, where they would start the colony and, presumably, their families would follow them there voluntarily. That is why Lincoln hatched the scheme with two military generals rather than going through congress - he sent Daniel Sickles down to Panama in early 1865 to feel out for and cut the deal, and he met with Ben Butler in the White House on April 11th to devise the transport logistics of the scheme.