New Series CNN Lincon:Divided We Stand FEB 14

[David Lockmiller]

(02-15-2021 04:02 PM)RJNorton Wrote:  IMO, Part One of the series was excellent. I felt the producers were quite fair in their analysis of Lincoln, and dealt with some topics many books "overlook." For example, they noted that Lincoln was an ardent supporter of colonization. My high school textbook definitely did not include that information.

In my opinion, President Lincoln accurately predicted a future without significant colonization of former slaves. The Northern States did not want a mass migration of millions of former slaves to the North to compete for scarce resources and the Southern States would have found the equality of former slaves to white society at all levels to be unacceptable.