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 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