Yep! I haven't read Settlers yet, but John Brown was kind of a outlier among abolitionists at the time who saw Africans as his equal as opposed to many of the other abolitionists who just wanted them gone.
Yeah that’s another thing Sakai brings up. Lincoln’s vp literally commented that Africans would be outcompeted by whites so it wasn’t anything to worry about
It wasn't just his position, he actually did send some folks. I know someone who doesn't have definitive proof, so grain of salt, but it's been folklore passed down through their family that it happened to one of their ancestors.
Sakai argues in Settlers that most abolitionists were simply scared of a Haiti-style slave revolt after Louverture's revolution :louverture-shining:
It wasn't uncommon for abolitionists to expect that they could just send the freed slaves "back to Africa", too.
Yep! I haven't read Settlers yet, but John Brown was kind of a outlier among abolitionists at the time who saw Africans as his equal as opposed to many of the other abolitionists who just wanted them gone.
Tried reading Lincoln's speeches to see why he's considered so good and apparently this was just his position. They uh left that part out in school
They also left out the part where he was more concerned about keeping the union together than freeing slaves.
One of his proposed central American colonies was named Linconia
Yeah that’s another thing Sakai brings up. Lincoln’s vp literally commented that Africans would be outcompeted by whites so it wasn’t anything to worry about
It wasn't just his position, he actually did send some folks. I know someone who doesn't have definitive proof, so grain of salt, but it's been folklore passed down through their family that it happened to one of their ancestors.
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Settlers is a great read. It also gets bonus points for how much it upsets white guys