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To: rockrr

Is it your view that Lincoln was supportive of deportation until the end of his life? If you do, we don’t disagree.


39 posted on 02/10/2011 10:21:35 AM PST by Captain Kirk (Q)
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To: Captain Kirk

No. I’ve seen no evidence to support that contention.


40 posted on 02/10/2011 10:28:12 AM PST by rockrr ("I said that I was scared of you!" - pokie the pretend cowboy)
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To: Captain Kirk
Lincoln probably thought colonization was a good idea until his death, although just days before his death he also said that he was in favor of allowed freed blacks to vote--a comment usually attributed to making John Wilkes Booth decide to assassinate him.

But there's a difference between voluntary resettlement and forcible deportation, and there's no evidence that I've ever seen that Lincoln favored forcibly deporting millions of blacks.

54 posted on 02/10/2011 12:25:42 PM PST by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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