[Non-Sequitur]

Jefferson is postulating an agreement that in return for being freed from slavery, blacks would be transferred to Santo Domingo.

So when Lincoln proposes it, it's 'deported' but when Jefferson proposes it then it's 'transferred'? No bias in that choice of language, is there? </sarcasm>

[AlanD]

The key word here is “voluntary”.

Did Lincoln and Jefferson want blacks forced back to Africa , or would it be voluntary.