But the point of my post is, they weren't shipped back to Africa, because they refused to go.
Post-Civil War Black leaders realized they were in a better place, and they wanted a piece of the pie. And they earned it, too! By the end of the Civil War, there were tens of thousands of blacks within the Union ranks; thousands of them died fighting for what they believed was the emancipation of their race, and in those days they were for the Repubilican Party, the party which freed them. Many people educated in the public school system don't know that Blacks were Republicans until Eleanor Roosevelt fed them a line of bullshit during the depression. Many people, both white and black, red, yellow, and purple, were suffering during those times, but Eleanor convinced blacks that their salvation lied with the liberals. They've been suffering ever since.
Bottom line: Most Blacks had ancestors in this country long before my own were here. They were brought here, enslaved, and when they were freed their leaders felt that this was their country too. I can't argue with that; if Blacks have earned anything due to slavery, it's their right to be called Americans. But part of being an American is to realize that you've been tossed into the melting pot; no one race should consider themselves entitled to something another race is not. And I'll say it again; the sooner Blacks jump off of the liberal manure spreader, the better, both for them and for America...