Well for one thing the Indians walked; no ships; for another there were far far fewer of them; and resettlement was relatively cheap, and the land swaps worked well for most tribes. Take a look at Remini's Andrew Jackson and His Indian Wars. Most of the removals were easily accomplished without much cost. Moving 4,000,000 slaves to Africa would have required money and ships that did not exist at the time. Setting them up in Africa would have required much more money.
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Where did the United States find the money to remove Native Americans to the West? As Bill Freehling has pointed out, it at least demonstrates that the national government had the political will to execute a removal program given the right incentives. I freely admit that there were many differences in the two circumstances, but it gave a certain veneer of plausibility to colonization.
Gregg Kimball
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Hard to imagine where would have found the ships and money for a mass exodus to Liberia.
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From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Craig Kilby
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I wrote that, and it was in connection Lincoln's initial plan to send freed slaves to Liberia. I clearly stated that that was veering off topic of this thread. Lincoln abandoned that plan due to vocal opposition from the black community.
That sentence was part of a larger "conjecture" of how slavery would have ended had the South won, whenever it ended, if it would ever end (and it surely would.)
Craig Kilby
On May 7, 2012, at 11:53 PM, Finkelman, Paul <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> One post suggested that "hundreds of thousands of blacks" might have gone to Liberia? On what boats? How many ships were around to move them? Who would pay for it?
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