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Old 01-09-13, 08:32 PM   #45
Platapus
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I don't believe that was the proposal. What Lincoln envisioned I think was creating a new country in Africa that would be peopled by former slaves.
I think we tried that with Liberia in the 1820's. Of course that experiment did not work out quite as well as some wished.
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