[hoosierskypilot]

What really floored me was when I read that, after slaves were freed, Lincoln actually considered shipping them all back to Africa. But he discounted that idea because the blacks would never survive without our indefinite support!

[cyborg]

Paul Harvey talked about the failed Liberian experiment. That was to send any freed slave back to Africa. Within one generation, they were selling eachother, enslaving eachother, enslaving other Africans, just general mayhem.

I wish things were done the way the British ended slavery in 1834 (?). That is before ending slavery, to educate, civilize and empower the slaves, then end it COMPLETELY. No reconstruction, no bloody revolt. Look at Haiti when they had the violent overthrow of the French. It is a real cesspool of voodooism and poverty, and has the dubious honor of being the poorest nation in the World.