• ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    The thing about the north that I’ve learned that surprised me is how many abolitionists held that belief because they didn’t want black and white people living together. They wanted an ethnostate.

    • deo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 hours ago

      Yeah, there was a whole movement to get them to move to what is now Liberia (or Haiti, or Panama). Even Lincoln supported the idea. Although, he did eventually abandon the idea due to, among other complications, his refusal to implement any plan that made it compulsory, so… at least there’s that?