A new book Colonization after Emancipation reveals Lincoln's complex and controversial stance on race.
Abraham Lincoln's post emancipation advice to blacks was to resettle in Central America, a region well suited in temperature being similar to their native Africa. The purpose as he saw it was their opportunity to build a society as grand and self-determining as their white counterpart.
I agree with him ... the development of race independence would have been indisputably positive. Before the onset of civil rights reform and desegregation, black social groups and initiatives sought to uplift and create solid associations among themselves. The ideas and solidarity that resulted were pure gold until they were forcibly undone by white society or otherwise frittered away.
The experience would have been entirely different but in a good way, if only.
Myths of the man ...
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