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

To: Brumar89 who wrote (278181)	12/30/2023 3:27:46 PM
From: Alex MG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 355696

As usual you're just pulling shit out of your ass Lincoln's plan was going to be voluntary. Free Blacks had a choice. The first attempt of the plan failed badly... After that Lincoln abandoned the thought of relocating Blacks. > On April 14, 1863 the vessel Ocean Ranger departed from Fortress Monroe, Virginia, with 453 hopeful African American emigrants aboard, headed to Île à Vache. The mission proved an “unmitigated failure” from the start, according to Graham Welch, an historian and attorney. By the time the Ocean Ranger reached Île à Vache in early May, at least 30 of its Black passengers had died from smallpox. A second ship, which was supposed to follow the Ocean Ranger with building and living supplies, never set sail. Kock, the self-appointed superintendent of the island, had misled the government and the Black settlers about the living conditions. On a visit to the island, a government official found the African American settlers with “tears, misery and sorrow pictured in every countenance.” ...On February 1, 1864, the President ordered his secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, to commission a naval vessel to rescue the Île à Vache group. A month later, the Navy’s Marcia C. Day carried the 350 surviving emigrants back to America, arriving in Alexandria, Virginia on March 20. Also in March, Lincoln signed a bill withdrawing the $600,000 appropriated for colonization, of which the administration had spent only about $38,000. According to Welch, Lincoln’s signing of the bill signaled that he was finally abandoning colonization as a viable option for those freed from slavery. “Following his reversal of the Île à Vache venture, Lincoln not only remained silent on the failed Haitian colony, but also never issued another public statement concerning colonization,” Welch wrote. Instead, Lincoln began exploring ways to integrate those he had freed into a post-emancipation society.