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Lincoln was also at one point on board with a plan to send them all back to Africa. I'm sticking to the "he was a moderate" take I had before.
fun fact, Liberia was actually an experiment at sending freed African American slaves back to Africa because people thought that freed slaved would have better prospects of liberty and prosperity in Africa than they did in the States.