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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

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They also left out the part where he was more concerned about keeping the union together than freeing slaves.

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One of his proposed central American colonies was named Linconia

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Yeah that’s another thing Sakai brings up. Lincoln’s vp literally commented that Africans would be outcompeted by whites so it wasn’t anything to worry about

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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.

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