[WhiskeyPapa]

Found this:

"The day before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, Lincoln signed a contract to colonize Cow Island, off of Haiti. 453 free blacks were transported there, but 10 months later he ordered a transport to return 368 disgusted black colonists. Lincoln's private secretary, John Hay, noted on July 1, 1864, that Lincoln "has sloughed off the idea of colonization."

More later.

Walt

[thatdewd]

"The day before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, Lincoln signed a contract to colonize Cow Island, off of Haiti..."

I would like to study this further, where can I find the whole document?