History of the United States I / Unit 15 USH1 2146 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Colonization Abandoned
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The idea
Lincoln's plan for enslaved people once freed had long involved sending them to Liberia, and in August eighteen sixty-two he proposed a Central American colony.
In practice
Black leaders and abolitionists rejecting the proposal for a colony outright.
Where people slip
Lincoln abandoned it. Unit 13 entry 1836 covers colonization as one of three answers to slavery, and this is where the oldest dies.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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