Gotcha, a counterfactual argument? Surprisingly hard to say, tho I don't want to encourage "waiter, there's a jew in my soup" either
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The abolitionists funded Liberia. Idk why it couldn't have been scaled up. I actually don't know the history of Liberia well.
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Not many actually went there, and I assume it was purely voluntary. Most anti-slavery people would have
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strongly opposed rounding up all the blacks by force and shipping them out
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I doubt it would have been any more violent than rounding them up to listen to speeches outside the Union League Club
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I think you're underestimating the necessary political will & difficulty of forcibly moving large populations
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6M blacks moved North voluntarily between 1910 and 1970. Only 4M blacks, total, in 1860. Water transport cheap, too.
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voluntary is very different
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I mean, it's possible of course, but too many people wanted them to stay (including the former owners, now employers)
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