There is corroboration on this point from, of all people, Abraham Lincoln, who asked Congress in his second State of the Union Message to approve not the Emancipation Proclamation but an entirely different plan, the real plan he had confided to Judge Davis, a plan that contradicted the Proclamation and called for, among other things, the deportation—his word—of Blacks and the racial cleansing of the United States of America
What! Lincoln used the term
"racial cleansing of the United States of America"???
Heck, not only was he WAY ahead of his time in his terminology, he'd find a place among some right here at the 'Fire....
Meanwhile he was expressing a view common at the time in both the North and South and also held by a significant number of Black folk.
Google on "American Colonization Society 1816"....
and....
"Liberia, West Africa, 1847"...
Heck, I would just Wiki it but I'm afraid you've already burned yer own bridges in that regard
Birdwatcher
