We all know the story of how John Wilkes Booth shot and killed Mary Todd Lincoln at Ford's Theater, and how it changed Abe. What if he'd shot Abe instead?
Would having Andrew Johnson as president resulted in a less Radical Reconstruction?
Would Johnson have ordered thousands of freed slaves to be shipped off to those "reservations" in Liberia?
Okay, the Liberia-Plan was an expensiv failure. But as we know, Abe never really thought it would be possibly to start a mass exodus to Liberia. The "300$ in Gold for every emigrant"-policy was more a act of petit politic in the greater sheme to make the negros full citizen. And after the 14. Amendment established universal and unlimited suffrage for all male citizen, the whole program was stopped. Okay, it wasn´t nice for the 7000 former slaves, now sitting with their 300$ in a african fever swamp, but it was for the greater good of millions of their brothers back in the states.
WI Johnson had become president? He never seemed very fond of the Black rule in the deep south, but I don´t see how anybody could prevent this without establish a system of terror and injustice in a large part of the USA.
God sake that race don´t play such a big role anymore in amercan politics. I mean, South Carolina have even a white Gouverneur today.