Isn’t that how Liberia got started? I believe it was after Lincoln’s time though.
I could be wrong, it’s happened before.
Liberia happened in 1821, it’s capital is “Monrovia”, named for President James Monroe who helped establish a new homeland in Africa for freed slaves.
The idea of re-colonization of freed slaves was not a revolutionary idea at the time of the Civil War, obviously, since it had already successfully happened a generation before.
Liberia was founded by the British after the war of independence. Its first colonists were loyalist blacks who found that the liberty bell wasn’t sounding for them.
Yes, you are correct.
“As president, Monroe supported the work of the American Colonization Society to create a home for freed African slaves in Liberia. ...”
Actually Liberia was started BEFORE Lincoln was elected. There is a reason the capital is named “Monrovia;” Monroe was president at the time...