Would lincoln really have let the southern states keep their slaves if they rejoined the union?

would lincoln really have let the southern states keep their slaves if they rejoined the union?

No, he'd ship them off back to Africa where they would belong.

Sadly Booth killed him before he could ever do that. It really surprises me how many liberals support the Union when it was literally more racist than the Confederacy if you think about it.

They should be burning Union flags instead of Confederate ones.

i dont see what's so racist about that

Well then you're not a liberal. Congratulations.

He let the slave states that didn't join the confederacy keep their slaves, so he may well have allowed the south to keep theirs had they not seceded. Lincolns freeing the slaves with the Gettysburg address was at the time interpreted as a desperation move to try to weaken the south by starting a race war. Lincoln got a lot of bad press globally for it since he did not free the slaves in the north and was considered to be vindictively trying to turn the south into another Haiti.

Lincoln and the the northerners who voted him in did want to free the slaves, many of them fanatically, but they were a vocal outsider group like Bernouts were, the plurality of opinion in the US didn't want to free the slaves. Even many who did want to free them only wanted to do so for religious reasons, as in equal before god, and didn't want them to be politically equal to whites. The civil war granting full control of the federal government to the new Republican party sped up the progress of the liberal agenda.

>No, he'd ship them off back to Africa where they would belong.

That's a myth. He wanted to establish colonies, yes, but he wasn't an idiot and therefore knew that deporting 4 million people would be logistically impossible. That was never the plan.

Even if this was true how the fuck do you interpret sending blacks back to Africa as more racist than keeping them as literally subhuman property

I didn't say ship them ALL off I said ship them off.

Keep in mind, I knew deporting them en masse all together was logistically impossible, did you really think I was that stupid, sir?

Heh.

Because the Confederates cared for them and if you shipped them back to Africa they'd be suffering more as independent beings (didn't know how to take care of themselves alone) than when they were in chains.

Africa was always a shithole, and still is today, they would not fare better over there.

>did you really think I was that stupid, sir?

Yes and I still do, since that's definitely what you meant.