logistically it would have been impossible. Circa 1860 the US merchant marine constituted fewer than 5000 vessels of all types and it was the largest in the world. It would have required bringing all other commerce to a halt to pull it off.
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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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