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<blockquote data-quote="DavidB" data-source="post: 2762847" data-attributes="member: 213933"><p>I imagine Lincoln supported the idea of transporting freed slaves back to Africa in the area that ended up being Liberia.&nbsp; But there were so many blacks that it would have been utterly impractical to transport them all to Africa.&nbsp; America is a free country, and Lincoln believed in freedom.&nbsp; Some blacks had been here since before the Revolutionary War.&nbsp; They were no longer Africans.&nbsp; They spoke no African languages and knew no African culture.&nbsp; They spoke English and had the culture of Americans.&nbsp; So it does not seem like Lincoln had any ethnic cleansing sort of ideas about forcibly deporting people according to the color of their skin.&nbsp; Going back to Africa was just one alternative that freedmen had in addition to enfranchisement and assimilation. It also could have utterly destroyed the economy in some areas if suddenly most of the workers were gone.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="DavidB, post: 2762847, member: 213933"] I imagine Lincoln supported the idea of transporting freed slaves back to Africa in the area that ended up being Liberia. But there were so many blacks that it would have been utterly impractical to transport them all to Africa. America is a free country, and Lincoln believed in freedom. Some blacks had been here since before the Revolutionary War. They were no longer Africans. They spoke no African languages and knew no African culture. They spoke English and had the culture of Americans. So it does not seem like Lincoln had any ethnic cleansing sort of ideas about forcibly deporting people according to the color of their skin. Going back to Africa was just one alternative that freedmen had in addition to enfranchisement and assimilation. It also could have utterly destroyed the economy in some areas if suddenly most of the workers were gone. [/QUOTE]

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