Very few people choose to remember that Lincoln was in favor of shipping all the blacks back to Africa. That little tidbit of history has been buried way down deep by the textbook writers and others who use the Orwellian tactic of teaching revisionist history to every new generation of kids. When Liberia was created by well-meaning but naive American politicians, those "immigrants" set up a mirror image of the society they had left, and subjugated the native population. The only difference was that the new overlords had as much melanin in their skin as those they enslaved.
