Topic for another forum on how different America would be today fs they had found the money and ships and undertaken the colonizing project. I note that since the 1840s Lincoln, who was an admirer of Henry Clay, had been an advocate of the American Colonization Society program of colonizing blacks in Liberia.
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> Date: Tue, 8 May 2012 17:04:54 +0000
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> Subject: Re: The Peculiar Institution's End Without The Intervention Of The Civil War
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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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> 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.
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> 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.)
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> Craig Kilby
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> On May 7, 2012, at 11:53 PM, Finkelman, Paul <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > 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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