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What if during his term in office, President Abraham Lincoln made good on his promise to move all freed slaves and African Americans to a Central American colony after the Civil War?
What if during his term in office, President Abraham Lincoln made good on his promise to move all freed slaves and African Americans to a Central American colony after the Civil War?
.....Any attempt to move any significant portion of the black population of the US would end up being a second Trail of Tears.
One problem, altough small, was that United States hadn't any colony in Central America. Well, USA could always enforce some CA nation giving land or then there could be earlier separated Panama.
But shipping would be very impractical. It would be expensive and Americans would lose their cheap labour force. And it would cause much resistance. And what about they who helped Union during Civil War?
I've never heard of this. In any case, I don't really see how he could have done so, since this would have required America having a colony in Central America in the first place, and the transport of 15% of the US population to an area without transportation infrastructure. It reminds me of the Nazi Madagascar plan, except possibly more ludicrous. Any attempt to move any significant portion of the black population of the US would end up being a second Trail of Tears.
If Lincoln was going to go through with this why would he deport the Blacks to Central America when American already has a Pseudo-Colony in Africa already set up for Free Blacks;Liberia?
I suspect those were just the ones Lincoln had in mind.
Blacks who had served in the Union Army might find life distinctly uncomfortable in a South still run (as it surely would be) by its white population. So Lincoln may well have seen sense in providing a "bolthole" for those who didn't fancy life in a White-ruled Dixie.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't that one of Grant's ideas behind approving the annexation of Santo Domingo? A sort of bolthole for African Americans who might need to flee the South?