Sakai argues in Settlers that most abolitionists were simply scared of a Haiti-style slave revolt after Louverture’s revolution :louverture-shining:
It wasn’t uncommon for abolitionists to expect that they could just send the freed slaves “back to Africa”, too.
uncommon for abolitionists to expect that they could just send the freed slaves “back to Africa”, too.
Tried reading Lincoln’s speeches to see why he’s considered so good and apparently this was just his position. They uh left that part out in school
It wasn’t just his position, he actually did send some folks. I know someone who doesn’t have definitive proof, so grain of salt, but it’s been folklore passed down through their family that it happened to one of their ancestors.