This is a pretty good joke which I won't ruin by pedantically noting that believing Lincoln's colonization schemes were a ruse is only held by a subset of Marxists (mainly Trots) and a few old-fashion liberals (which I think describes James McPherson better than "conservative") https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1260004131525312514 …
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Replying to @HeerJeet
I'm not sure it was a ruse but it certainly wasn't a serious policy. simple arithmetic showed it was completely impossible, no way Lincoln could have avoided that for long
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Replying to @ryanlcooper @HeerJeet
The fact that Lincoln would have liked it is somewhat damning even if he would never have pursued it for practical reasons
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Replying to @FelledMan @HeerJeet
he was pretty racist objectively, but exceptionally enlightened by the standards of the day, contrast how he and Andrew Johnson treated Fredrick Douglass
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Replying to @ryanlcooper
I agree -- but I think Richard Hofstadter gets at this nuances better than McPherson.
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