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True. It was best for Black people to go to a place where coining was not a part of their culture. South America took forever to end slavery and that would be sending black people BACK to the institution of slavery. Lincoln wanted power by not freeing the slaves, but he had to cripple the Confederacy.
Tribalism could be reeducated and mapped out a bigger picture of Africans vs Europeans as a while, amd that was a better alternative than dealing with Hispanic supremacists in South America, and white supremacists in North Amerixa.
that was tried back in 1820, return of slaves Back to Sierra Leone- they either died through clashes with local tribes or from famine or disease within 2 yrs. that was decades before Lincoln’s emigration plan.
-1820, the first organized group of emigrating freed slaves departed from New York to Freetown, Sierra Leone, in West Africa.
The enterprise was organized by the American Colonization Society, founded in 1816 by Robert Finley (1772-1817) with the mission of returning freed American slaves to Africa.
“In 1819, Congress had authorized the return of freed black slaves. The lawmakers appropriated $100,000, a large sum at the time, to be used in returning displaced Africans who had been brought to the United States illegally after the abolishment of the slave trade in 1808. The widespread trade of slaves, particularly within the South, continued. Children of slaves automatically became slaves, thus ensuring a self-sustaining slave population for Southern cotton growers.
With congressional approval, the American Colonization Society in 1821 founded the colony of Liberia, south of Sierra Leone, as a permanent homeland for freed U.S. slaves.
In many respects, the American program traced British efforts to resettle freed slaves in Africa following that nation’s abolishment of the slave trade in 1772. In 1787, the British government settled 300 former slaves and 70 white former prostitutes on the Sierra Leone peninsula. Within two years, however, most members of this settlement had died from disease or in clashes with local tribes.”
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Then there was this failure with this Haiti expedition - Lincoln sent everybody to their death. Like the idiots did to Roanoke.
Abstract
Just after the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect (1 Jan 1863) Abraham Lincoln signed a contract with two New York capitalists to transport 500 newly-freed ex-slaves to Ile-a-Vache, Haiti, where they would, under company supervision, found and maintain a colony. From the start, little went right. Failure was due largely to mismanagement and chicanery on the part of the company. The emigrants lived (and died) miserably on Ile-a-Vache for nearly a year, until they were returned to the U. S. on a government transport ship in March, 1864.
"Abraham Lincoln & the Colony on Ile-a-Vache" by Robert Bray
The Île a Vache Colonization Venture, 1862-1864 on JSTOR