[Iris7]

A while back I came across a compendium of Lincoln's writings. All through the war Lincoln talked about and worked toward deporting every last black in the United States. Deport them where? Haiti was one candidate, and Honduras another, but Africa seemed too difficult logistically to him..

[rwfromkansas]

Interesting.

I guess Lincoln was for ending slavery, but not having them live among us.

[Drennan Whyte]

All through the war Lincoln talked about and worked toward deporting every last black in the United States.

Considering how impossible it would have been to forcibly deport 4 million people against their will, and given that while Lincoln may have been may things he was not a stupid man, would you have anything to support that he advocated such a ridiculous scheme?

[Pietro]

"All through the war Lincoln talked about and worked toward deporting every last black in the United States."

That was because he realized that even though they would be free, they would nevertheless never be treated equally. He clearly foresaw the Jim Crow era and thought that only amongst themselves could they achieve true equality.

Fredrick Douglass argued against this reasoning, even though he understood the difficulties (or thought he did) that blacks would face. In hindsight of a century and a half it was Douglass that was most correct, although a century ago one couldn't have said that.