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For this post, I will discuss Lincoln's address about Colonization. Again, I was shocked. I actually had heard a rumor that Lincoln wanted to send black people to a foreign country but I never believed it was true. I was wrong. I'm not sure how Mr. Lincoln came up with this idea, perhaps he was so desperate for a solution to the problem of slavery this popped into his mind. Who knows. But what I do know, thanks to the letter to Horace Greeley, Lincoln was willing to do whatever it took to save the Union. He says he didnt care about ending slavery if he could save the Union. Evidentally, he was willing to begin a massive exportation of black people to either Latin America or Liberia.

God only knows what would have happened if this plan would have been executed. Im even willing to admit that for blacks at the time, this idea might have been appealing. After being enslaved and oppressed for so long, why wouldn't you want to leave? Obviously, what was proposed never happened, for reasons I am unaware of. But just the fact Lincoln has such an idea illustrates the dire time in which this speech was given. We cant even fathom such language or ideas today, which is probably a good thing. But this is an unfortunate piece of our history as Americans, and being educated on the bad points only makes us better as a people.

-Brad