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Old 09-28-2012, 04:36 PM
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Winners write the history.

Had the South won secession (they were not after victory over their northern brethren) they would call it the "Second War of Independence" (or some such) in the southern states perhaps, "The Race War".

Talk about voting with their feet -- had the south won there would likely soon have been a race war in the southern states as slaves were becoming uneconomical and the slave owners increasingly fearful of their numbers. Millions of slaves would have headed north for sanctuary. I'm sure the northern states would have welcomed them with open arms.

Lincoln did indeed propose to increase the population of Liberia through transport of 1st gen slaves back to Africa by the boatload and dumping on the shore. "Good luck, boys and girls!"

Lincoln also created an agency to direct his colonization projects. In 1862 he appointed the Rev. James Mitchell of Indiana to oversee colonization, and established a Bureau of Emigration under his head at the Department of the Interior. From that rightwing rag, Wikipaedia: Abraham Lincoln and slavery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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