[montag813]

If only they had followed through with the Liberia plan that Monroe, Jefferson and even Lincoln wanted

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

If only they had followed through with the Liberia plan that Monroe, Jefferson and even Lincoln wanted

There were two problems with that:

1. The Democrats would not accept it, and

2. Free blacks were Americans, and didn’t want to be exiled from the only country they had known.