Wasn't really possible to send the blacks back to Africa at the end of slavery? Did any politician ever considered it as an option?
Wasn't really possible to send the blacks back to Africa at the end of slavery...
Blake Ramirez
Easton Kelly
>Wasn't really possible to send the blacks back to Africa at the end of slavery?
No.
>Did any politician ever considered it as an option?
Yes.
Great thread OP, this was totally worth it.
Caleb Nguyen
Carter Morgan
>Wasn't really possible to send the blacks back to Africa at the end of slavery?
If there is a will there is a way, they got them over didn't they?
Anthony Morris
There was a great economic incentive one way, not so much the way back
Hudson Clark
Look up liberia you dumb fuck
Aaron Howard
>There was a great economic incentive one way, not so much the way back
>not so much the way back
>>>>>>>>
Gavin Price
That's right, shipping blacks back to Africa would require a large investment with zero return
Parker Robinson
See it as if an insurance company pays you to cut down a tree that is looking a bit unstable, instead of waiting for it to fall on your garage you cut it down before. That way you might save money in the future.
Racial unrest is crazy atm in the US.
Dominic Lee
I want you to ask yourself who would front the bill and when they would expect the money back, plus a little for their trouble.
Jose Richardson
They literally just a civil war, do you think anyone but a select few benefited from that?
Bentley Jones
I'm not even American and I still know this.
Bentley Fisher
>shipping blacks back to Africa would require a large investment with zero return
Well considering how much they cost for a single year today equates to more than they ever created as slaves, I'd say there's a fairly large return there. They just didn't know it (which is also false because there were many calls to send them back to Africa rather than keeping them on US soil).
Jose King
You do know if they shipped blacks they'd lose a fuckton of labour with huge losses?
Charles Reyes
Now cut out the insurance company.
Lots of people probably wouldn't fix the brakes on their fucking car unless they were forced to.
Abstractly going "not blowing your fortune shipping blacks back to Africa might cause some racial tension" isn't going to motivate anyone. SOMEBODY has to pay for it and not many people are going to do repeated Atlantic voyages as some sort of retarded public service. Get your head out of your ass for a second and actually think.
Henry Perry
You do know that even with all the dead bodies, there was a massive non-skilled labor surplus in the South which remained until after WWII, right? They wouldn't miss anything if the blacks suddenly up and left.
Adrian Carter
Also blacks were less than 5% of the population at the end of the civil war, they really weren't worth all that much when it came to labor.
Joseph Hill
>what is Liberia
Short answer: they did exactly that and it went even more wrong than you'd imagine
Anthony Ross
>Lots of people probably wouldn't fix the brakes on their fucking car unless they were forced to.
Citation needed.
Brayden Jenkins
well, liberia happened
Tyler Myers
Whats wrong with Liberia?
Jason Rivera
>fuckton of labour
There were only 5.3 millions people in total in the USA in the year 1800; with the tons of people steadily coming from Europe, sending back 50,000 blacks per year, and blocking the import of more blacks, could have solved the problem by 1820:
en.wikipedia.org
Tyler Morris
>Implying that Americans have a good education