"Colonization after Emancipation reveals an unexplored chapter of the Emancipation story. A valuable contribution to Lincoln studies and Civil War history, this book unearths the facts about an ill-fated project and illuminates just how complex, even convoluted, Abraham Lincoln's ideas about the end of slavery really were."--Jacket flap.
Prior to Emancipation, President Abraham Lincoln was a proponent of colonisation: the idea of sending African American slaves to another land to live as free people. This bookexplores the previously unknown truth about Lincoln's attitude toward colonization and exposes what history has neglected to reveal—that Lincoln continued to pursue colonisation for close to a year after emancipation. The authors' research even shows that Lincoln may have been attempting to revive this policy at the time of his assassination.
