I've always wondered if Lincoln's decision to recognize Haiti was connected to some formative plan of removing the freed black population -- Liberia was probably prohibitively expensive (unless, like Indian removal, the government didn't care about their survival), but Haiti was closer and trasport would be correspondingly less. (My other speculation on Haiti is that it's republican character might have been a signal from Lincoln that blacks could be citizens of a republic -- but perhaps not this one.)
David Kiracofe
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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.
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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