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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (278175)	12/30/2023 2:09:38 PM
From: bentway	1 Recommendation Recommended By Brumar89 Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 355129

Brumar is correct, koan: Yes, Abraham Lincoln supported sending former slaves back to Africa or other tropical regions. He believed that the political climate would not allow for the integration of nearly 4 million Black people into American society. Lincoln also believed that Black people were an alien group who had been unjustly brought across the ocean. Lincoln's support for colonization was repeated many times, including during the American Civil War . In 1862, Lincoln officially recognized Liberia as the first independent democratic republic in African history. By 1867, the Colonization Society had helped move more than 13,000 Americans of African descent to Liberia. A day before issuing the Emancipation Proclamation , Lincoln signed a contract to send hundreds of formerly enslaved people to Haiti.