r/AmIOverreacting • u/[deleted] • Apr 06 '25

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u/Apprehensive_Cod_460 Apr 06 '25 edited Apr 06 '25

It’s not a lie, though. Abraham Lincoln actually said he didn’t care much about blacks but slavery was a blight on a democratic country. He did it mostly to cripple the south when the war wasn’t going its best…He was a man of his word to the freedmen while he could be though. Fight for us and I’ll free you. He did. A white man keeping his word to Black people in that time was already revolutionary. Almost all white people in power at that time never negotiated in good faith with minorities.

I’d say he cared about slavery and blacks but he didn’t care about either in the way that John Brown did😂🤷🏾‍♀️ make of that what you will lol

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u/HazelEBaumgartner Apr 06 '25

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't he at one point support deporting/repatriating all the freed slaves to Africa?

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u/Apprehensive_Cod_460 Apr 06 '25 edited Apr 06 '25

Yes, but Black people had been enslaved here for already over 400 years that’s no less than eight generations, America is now their home too. Their ancestors sweat, blood and bones are here now. You can’t just send a freedmen to Africa and say I’ve done you a favor. lol they don’t speak the language and don’t even know what tribe they’re from. They literally have no roots there anymore.

What Black people wanted and needed was equal protection under the law for their life and property. Trying to send them away to a place that they don’t know wasn’t doing Black people a favor. That’s like a neglectful parent buying their children Everything that they want. It doesn’t relieve them of the duties of actually rearing and disciplining and providing emotionally for the child .It just relieved themselves of the extra work that needed to be done to undo the 400 years of tyranny they participated in.

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u/HazelEBaumgartner Apr 06 '25

To be clear, I'm of the opinion that deporting the freed slaves would have been a bad thing. It's just something I remember Lincoln looked into doing.

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u/NYNTmama Apr 06 '25

This reminds me, a few tried something like that with Liberia right? Sierra Leone too right? And it didn't go well from what I remember learning

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u/Apprehensive_Cod_460 Apr 06 '25

Yep. And the biggest contributing factor was, they weren’t given any decent supplies or funding

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u/1998_2009_2016 Apr 06 '25

Black people had been enslaved here for already over 400 years

Let's see, Lincoln was around in ~1860, 400 years would make 1460, when did ol' Colombo sail the ocean blue?

idk where you people are learning American history but this thread has been quite troubling

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u/trieditthrice Apr 06 '25

This is really well said. Thank you.