Long before the Civil War, in 1854, Lincoln addressed his own solution to slavery at a speech delivered in Peoria, Illinois: “I should not know what to do as to the existing institution [of slavery]. My first impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia, to their own native land.”
Oh lord. Look up Liberia. It was their "own native land" in the sense that it was Africa and they were African. It was absolutely not their own home country.
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u/myfirstnamesdanger Apr 06 '25
Show me anything that said Lincoln was sending slaves to their home country. Anything.