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To: FLT-bird
Hell, many anti slavery folks - like Lincoln - were desperately TRYING to push Blacks out of the country. Lincoln was president of the American Colonization Society.

Lincoln was never president of the ACS…but James Madison was.And they were never ever advocating selling slaves overseas like you suggested. They were in favor of voluntary migration of free blacks such as what happened in the founding of the Nation of Liberia. That’s how Monrovia the capital of that country got its name.

As I suggested before, a few American history courses would help rid you of this Lost Cause BS.

71 posted on 04/13/2025 6:50:45 PM PDT by Ditto
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To: Ditto
Lincoln was never president of the ACS…but James Madison was.And they were never ever advocating selling slaves overseas like you suggested.

I didn't suggest they advocated selling slaves overseas. I flat out said they advocated getting rid of Blacks - which they did.

They were in favor of voluntary migration of free blacks such as what happened in the founding of the Nation of Liberia. That’s how Monrovia the capital of that country got its name.

That's not as innocent as it sounds. Blacks would be persuaded to "volunteer" by doing what they did up North when they passed the Black Codes. Just make it impossible for them to earn a living and voila! They won't live there.

As I suggested before, a few American history courses would help rid you of this Lost Cause BS.

And as I suggested before, some reading of what the actual people at the time said and did as well as earlier historians would help rid you of this PC Revisionist BS.

73 posted on 04/13/2025 9:31:35 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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