Lincoln wanted to expel all Blacks to Africa at the start of his career and as late as the start of the Civil War, that is true. Primarily because at the time he doubted different races could live together as equals in the same country. But that changed over the course of the war, as the “Emancipation Amendments” he oversaw the drafting and passage of from 1864, which wasn’t just about destroying slavery but also paving the way for Blacks to be citizens.
And people were entirely capable of opposing slavery for multiple reasons, including how repugnant it was morally and humanitarianly. Lincoln was primarily a freesoiler who cared about free white labor, but he was also convinced that slavery was the utter evil it was from a moral point of view. An injustice to both Whites and Blacks, as well as all others.
Well, actually even after the end of the Civil War, Lincoln was still lobbying for "recolonization" (sending Blacks back to Africa).
The Emancipation Proclamation did not give citizenship rights to Blacks but only freed slaves; in fact, it famously only applied to areas the Union didn't control (areas that were controlled by the Union, plus the two slave states that stayed in the Union--Missouri and Kentucky--did NOT have slaves freed). It was intended as a "carrot-and-stick" approach to end the rebellion: states that rejoined the Union were to have slavery protected, but those that didn't would lose their slaves.
Lincoln Couldn’t lobby for recolonization after the civil war because he was dead before it ended, murdered by Both and a bunch of other Prog racists.
By that time he was was still willing to recolonize Blacks but he had moved from demanding or advocating or all of them really so. While Lincoln was killed long before the CRA of 1866 was passed he had overseen the passage of the Freedman’s Bureau through Congress in March 1865, meant both as general relief and to help the freed slaves prepare for citizenship.
You are correct about the Emancipation Proclamation, it’s intent, and it’s effects, but that is not because Lincoln did not care about slavery. Rather, it is because Union was perhaps the one thing he cared about more than slavery, hence his famous “If I could keep the Union...” quote.
SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the commissioner, under the direction of the President, shall have authority to set apart, for the use of loyal refugees and freedmen, such tracts of land within the insurrectionary states as shall have been abandoned, or to which the United States shall have acquired title by confiscation or sale, or otherwise, and to every male citizen, whether refugee or freedman, as aforesaid, there shall be assigned not more than forty acres of such land,...
And since Lincoln supported this bill publicly and privately/ including with spoils appointments- it is hard to say this does not reflect an intent to make Freemen citizens of the Us on his part.
So the idea that Lincoln did not care about slaves or was 100% Recolonization at every point of his careerdoes not hold up. Ll
Lincoln wanted to expel all Blacks to Africa at the start of his career and as late as the start of the Civil War, that is true. Primarily because at the time he doubted different races could live together as equals in the same country. But that changed over the course of the war, as the “Emancipation Amendments” he oversaw the drafting and passage of from 1864, which wasn’t just about destroying slavery but also paving the way for Blacks to be citizens.
And people were entirely capable of opposing slavery for multiple reasons, including how repugnant it was morally and humanitarianly. Lincoln was primarily a freesoiler who cared about free white labor, but he was also convinced that slavery was the utter evil it was from a moral point of view. An injustice to both Whites and Blacks, as well as all others.
Well, actually even after the end of the Civil War, Lincoln was still lobbying for "recolonization" (sending Blacks back to Africa).
The Emancipation Proclamation did not give citizenship rights to Blacks but only freed slaves; in fact, it famously only applied to areas the Union didn't control (areas that were controlled by the Union, plus the two slave states that stayed in the Union--Missouri and Kentucky--did NOT have slaves freed). It was intended as a "carrot-and-stick" approach to end the rebellion: states that rejoined the Union were to have slavery protected, but those that didn't would lose their slaves.
Lincoln Couldn’t lobby for recolonization after the civil war because he was dead before it ended, murdered by Both and a bunch of other Prog racists.
By that time he was was still willing to recolonize Blacks but he had moved from demanding or advocating or all of them really so. While Lincoln was killed long before the CRA of 1866 was passed he had overseen the passage of the Freedman’s Bureau through Congress in March 1865, meant both as general relief and to help the freed slaves prepare for citizenship.
You are correct about the Emancipation Proclamation, it’s intent, and it’s effects, but that is not because Lincoln did not care about slavery. Rather, it is because Union was perhaps the one thing he cared about more than slavery, hence his famous “If I could keep the Union...” quote.
When the rebels did not respond to the EP, he took a far harder line. The Thirteenth Amendment did not grant citizenship, but explicitly forbade slavery everywhere in the Union, including freeing slaves in Union states. And the Freedman’s Bureau Act signed just before Lincoln’s assassination said- among other things-
And since Lincoln supported this bill publicly and privately/ including with spoils appointments- it is hard to say this does not reflect an intent to make Freemen citizens of the Us on his part.
So the idea that Lincoln did not care about slaves or was 100% Recolonization at every point of his careerdoes not hold up. Ll