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Whatever the numbers are? It don’t change the fact it was Lincoln’s policy. It doesn’t change the Fact he tried to compel them to leave, Free Blacks in the North.
This same Black Population that were prime candidates for Colonization, the ones Britain in particular wanted for Prime Field Hands were the same ones Stanton wanted for the replacements of Racist Northern Voters, in the Military. So this is where some of them went. Also during the War, Blacks were not allowed passes to go North. The Radicals made the determination that Blacks would be the bases for the SOUTH’S labor force, and thought they should remain, in the South. Untenable they should go North.
Lincoln chanced down several schemes. With several different countries. Until late in 64. The Ben Butler letter, Butler says Lincoln discussion Colonization with him, early 65.
I’ve posted this stuff before. If you are that short on memory, maybe you should study it. You might remember it that way.
You said that after Lincoln's meeting with free blacks in 1862, "...many Free Blacks... self Deported." I am not a scholar on the subject but in the reading I've done, I've seen nothing to indicate this is true. Lacking evidence, I believe this claim is unfounded.
You say Lincoln "tried to compel them to leave." Talking to a small group of black men in Washington DC is not equal to "compulsion." Question: how many people in even that meeting with Lincoln actually left the country? One? None? Any?
You say, "It don’t change the fact it was Lincoln’s policy." But just because a policy has been announced, that doesn't mean it is at all effective. Yes, Lincoln had a colonization policy. But according to this source, only 500 people actually went to any colony, and there is no indication they were compelled.
As I said in a previous post: when we talk about colonization, we have to ask the Big Question: exactly how many people were actually colonized while Lincoln was president? The fact is, there was no mobilization of the resources, or even the creation of rudimentary plans, that would accomplish the gargantuan feat of moving millions of African Americans out of the country. In essence, Lincoln's colonization policy amounted to trial balloons and funding for test cases. There was no substantial colonization policy as such. Recollect, the US had a war to fight.
And if all of these black folks were leaving the country, where was the US getting all these black folks who joined the army and navy? Did they all join the armed forces with the idea they were going to leave the US once the war was over? That doesn't make sense.
Again, your claim that after Lincoln's meeting with free blacks in 1862, "...many Free Blacks... self Deported" seems unfounded. But if you can provide me with some proof of these "many" people, I will look it over with an open mind.
- Alan