On the contrary, you may not agree with his ideas on colonization but Lincoln was against the institution of slavery, unlike your southron heroes, and said so on many occasions. The same cannot be said of the holy Davis and the sainted Lee. I've pointed this out before but considering the treatment shown towards free blacks down south prior to the war, and given that their welcome up North wasn't very warm either, and in light of what the south tried to pull off after the war with their Black Codes, was Lincoln doing them any harm suggesting that they might be better of carving a new life for themselves overseas? Someplace where they could run their own lives and their own societies free in a way that southern whites would never voluntarily allow? In retrospect we are a better country for having an integrated society, but I would not have wanted to go through what blacks went through in the 100 years following the war.
Oh, I guess you mean their ability to own land, property, and even rent property as historical fact shows in Charleston. Or do you mean such as further South where blacks owned land, plantations, and slaves to work for them? Or perhaps you're talking about the freedmen skilled workers in VA?
and given that their welcome up North wasn't very warm either
Well I'll give you that!!
On that I can fully agree with you. But the problems they faced were not centered, nor completely the fault, of the Southern policies in the decades following the war. Unless you're suggesting there were no race riots, protests, or problems with integration outside of the South