Territorial Segregation in USA?

I'm wondering were there any plans post ACW for the segregation of Black Americans territorially instead of more socially as OTL.

I mean certain areas within the United States are defined for Black Americans more similar to South Africa's bantustans.

Was this ever proposed? Is this feasible? How would this effect black culture and identity? And would this lead to an earlier social acception of equality or a later one?
 
It's not feasible, since the areas with the most blacks happened to be the most profitable areas in the South for the white planters. Take the Mississippi Delta, for instance, where planters were basically planting gold they got so much money out of the cotton there (on the backs of a large number of majority-black dirt poor sharecroppers). Conversely, the areas which are the least useful in the South happened to be the areas which were the most solidly white (and no way in hell are you going to kick poor white Southerners off their land for a Bantustan-type system). A Bantustan-type system just wouldn't be ideal for the people in charge, especially compared to how well the system worked IOTL.
 
I'm wondering were there any plans post ACW for the segregation of Black Americans territorially instead of more socially as OTL.

I mean certain areas within the United States are defined for Black Americans more similar to South Africa's bantustans.

Was this ever proposed? Is this feasible? How would this effect black culture and identity? And would this lead to an earlier social acception of equality or a later one?

AFAIK, there weren't any plans to create the equivalent of bantustans after the ACW. I read that Lincoln planned to basically deport the African American community back to Africa after the ACW, but I don't know how true that was. If bantustans were created, I think that it would probably create a more separate black culture and identity from the what we had IOTL, but it's hard to tell, considering how badly the black community was treated post-Reconstruction, already creating the perception that they were "other".
 
AFAIK, there weren't any plans to create the equivalent of bantustans after the ACW. I read that Lincoln planned to basically deport the African American community back to Africa after the ACW, but I don't know how true that was. If bantustans were created, I think that it would probably create a more separate black culture and identity from the what we had IOTL, but it's hard to tell, considering how badly the black community was treated post-Reconstruction, already creating the perception that they were "other".


No evidence that he planned to deport anyone.

He did apparently toy with the idea of a Black settlement in Central America, more particularly for Black war veterans (whom he may have feared woul have a particularly hard time of it in a White-ruled South) but it's doubtful how many (if indeed any) would have taken it up.
 
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