Abraham Lincoln's Program of Black Resettlement Part 1:

This is a series of posts from the cited paper, I will try to divide it into many parts, put titles, and some illustration to fit in blogger and this Blog.

From The Journal of Historical Review, Sept.-Oct. 1993 (Vol. 13, No. 5), pages 4-25. 

                                                                                                                                      By Robert Morgan

Many Americans think of Abraham Lincoln, above all, as the president who freed the slaves. Immortalized as the "Great Emancipator," he is widely regarded as a champion of black freedom who supported social equality of the races, and who fought the American Civil War (1861-1865) to free the slaves.

While it is true that Lincoln regarded slavery as an evil and harmful institution, it is also true, as this paper will show, that he shared the conviction of most Americans of his time, and of many prominent statesmen before and after him, that blacks could not be assimilated into white society. He rejected the notion of social equality of the races, and held to the view that blacks should be resettled abroad. As President, he supported projects to remove blacks from the United States.

Early Experiences

In 1837, at the age of 28, the self-educated Lincoln was admitted to practice law in Illinois. In at least one case, which received considerable attention at the time, he represented a slave-owner. Robert Matson, Lincoln's client, each year brought a crew of slaves from his plantation in Kentucky to a farm he owned in Illinois for seasonal work. State law permitted this, provided that the slaves did not remain in Illinois continuously for a year. In 1847, Matson brought to the farm his favorite mulatto slave, Jane Bryant (wife of his free, black overseer there), and her four children. A dispute developed between Jane Bryant and Matson's white housekeeper, who threatened to have Jane and her children returned to slavery in the South. With the help of local abolitionists, the Bryants fled. They were apprehended, and, in an affidavit sworn out before a justice of the peace, Matson claimed them as his property. Lacking the required certificates of freedom, Bryant and the children were confined to local county jail as the case was argued in court. Lincoln lost the case, and Bryant and her children were declared free. 

First cases of resettlement

They were later resettled in Liberia. In 1842 Lincoln married Mary Todd, who came from one of Kentucky's most prominent slave-holding families. While serving as an elected representative in the Illinois legislature, he persuaded his fellow Whigs to support Zachary Taylor, a slave owner, in his successful 1848 bid for the Presidency. Lincoln was also a strong supporter of the Illinois law that forbid marriage between whites and blacks.

Ambitions before the assassination

"If all earthly power were given me," said Lincoln in a speech delivered in Peoria, Illinois, on October 16, 1854, "I should not know what to do, as to the existing institution [of slavery]. My first impulse would be to free all the slaves, and send them to Liberia, to their own native land." After acknowledging that this plan's "sudden execution is impossible," he asked whether freed blacks should be made "politically and socially our equals?" "My own feelings will not admit of this," he said, "and [even] if mine would, we well know that those of the great mass of white people will not ... We can not, then, make them equals."

One of Lincoln's most representative public statements on the question of racial relations was given in a speech at Springfield, Illinois, on June 26, 1857.6 In this address, he explained why he opposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which would have admitted Kansas into the Union as a slave state:

Incompatibility of Negros 

There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races ... A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation, but as an immediate separation is impossible, the next best thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together. If white and black people never get together in Kansas, they will never mix blood in Kansas ...

Necessity of Reservation

Racial separation, Lincoln went on to say, "must be effected by colonization" of the country's blacks to a foreign land. "The enterprise is a difficult one," he acknowledged,

but "where there is a will there is a way," and what colonization needs most is a hearty will. Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest. Let us be brought to believe it is morally right, and, at the same time, favorable to, or, at least, not against, our interest, to transfer the African to his native clime, and we shall find a way to do it, however great the task may be.

To affirm the humanity of blacks, Lincoln continued, was more likely to strengthen public sentiment on behalf of colonization than the Democrats' efforts to "crush all sympathy for him, and cultivate and excite hatred and disgust against him ..." Resettlement ("colonization") would not succeed, Lincoln seemed to argue, unless accompanied by humanitarian concern for blacks, and some respect for their rights and abilities. 

Evolutionary background of slavery

By apparently denying the black person's humanity, supporters of slavery were laying the groundwork for "the indefinite outspreading of his bondage." The Republican program of restricting slavery to where it presently existed, he said, had the long-range benefit of denying to slave holders an opportunity to sell their surplus bondsmen at high prices in new slave territories, and thus encouraged them to support a process of gradual emancipation involving resettlement of the excess outside of the country.

Dominicans to serve as Lab rats for AIDS vaccine

Dominican Prostitutes, Facing AIDS Crisis, Test Experimental Vaccine...

The Dominican Republic is among eight countries where Merck & Co. is testing an experimental HIV vaccine composed of deactivated cold viruses and synthetically produced HIV genes. One hundred seventy-five Dominican prostitutes are taking part in the Phase II trial, which is expected to last four years. Other test sites include Haiti, Brazil, Jamaica, Australia, Canada, Peru, and the United States.

The Caribbean region has an AIDS rate second only to that of sub-Saharan Africa. UN figures show nearly three-quarters of those with HIV/AIDS in the region live on Hispaniola, the island the Dominican Republic shares with Haiti. Around 3.6 percent of Dominican prostitutes are infected, although researchers say rates are as high as 12 percent in certain areas.

The prostitutes, who were recruited from brothels across the country, will travel to Santo Domingo during the trial's first seven months to receive three injections. They must return for regular follow-ups during the study's four-year period. The study pays for the women's meals and transportation, and it provides them with $30 for a lost day's wages. In addition to health training, an occasional gift bag of cosmetics is given to keep the women from losing interest.

The HIV strain found in the eight Merck vaccine trial sites is the same one common in Europe. A new trial in South Africa will determine whether the vaccine candidate is effective on African strains. The Merck trial is one of 17 being sponsored by the Seattle-based HIV Vaccine Trials Network, which is supported by the US government.

Having sex with black women? Think again...

A recent CDC study has found a wide gap between blacks and whites, and yet again the news is not good for African-Americans - or men who like to fuck young Black women.

The study ( you can Google it) shows that an alarming 48% of African-American girls ages 14-19 have a sexually transmitted disease, compared with 20% of young white and Mexican-American females. The CDC analyzed data on 838 female adolescents who participated in the 2003-04 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The researchers found that black teens had far greater rates of common STDs, including human papillomavirus (HPV), chlamydia, herpes simplex virus and trichomoniasis.

Sadly, this is not a new trend. Are you surprised?

Though this study did not include syphilis, gonorrhea or HIV because of their low prevalence in this age group, these diseases strike black women in later years at strikingly high rates. In 2006, the rate of chlamydia cases among black women was more than seven times that of white women; the gonorrhea rate among African-American women was 18 times greater than for whites; and the rate of syphilis cases in black women was 16 times higher than in white women.

Did you absorb those statistics? Do you know what that means if you fuck an African-American woman?

Here are some key factors:

1. Sexuality of teens starts earlier and earlier, heightened by music lyrics and images on television. Who saya rap music is "harmless"?
2. More than 20% of blacks are uninsured. So without access to health care, more blacks with STDs go untreated while the diseases are often undetected.

The significance of this problem can't be overstated, as STDs also can cause infertility and cervical cancer.

What can be done? The CDC suggests sex with an uninfected monogamous partner and habitual condom use.

Abstinence, of course, is the surest way to avoid STDs. That means don't fuck young black women

HIV Among Blacks Near Epidemic Levels, Advocates Say

A group of local activists and ministers are pushing for President Barack Obama to declare HIV/AIDS a public health emergency in African-American communities. NY1's Cheryl Wills filed the following report.

Former Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields is no longer in the political arena, but she finds herself at the center of a public health crisis. She is the president of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS and says the virus is killing black Americans at an alarming rate.

"I wanted to be a part of seeing how we can bring more awareness and attention as to what is happening in the black community, help move people from this state of complacency of believing that it's no longer a problem, they no longer have to be concerned," said Fields.

But the latest Centers for Disease Control statistics are of great concern to many.

African-Americans account for 45 percent, almost half, of new HIV infections. HIV related deaths are also highest among blacks and is the fourth leading cause of death for black men and third for black women.

"This is more dangerous than the swine flu and I hope that the country will recognize that if we can solve this, then we can move forward in addressing other health disparities," said Reverend Dr. Calvin Butts, chairman of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS.

Both Butts and Fields are behind new legislation which, for the first time, specifically addresses AIDS in the African-American community.

H.R. 1964, which is sponsored by Harlem congressman Charlie Rangel, calls on President Obama to declare HIV/AIDS an epidemic in the black community, directs the department of Health and Human Services to provide funds for outreach and testing, and requires a comprehensive study to explain factors that lead to higher rates of HIV and AIDS among black Americans.

"African-Americans are not being tested, they are not becoming aware of their status until it's full blown AIDS," said Fields.

"If we don't do something soon, this pandemic could be compared to some kind of genocidal activity because it's wiping out a generation of people," said Butts.

As the legislation makes it way through congress, Fields is busy sounding the alarm. She is frantically trying to raise awareness about an epidemic that is taking a huge toll, not only in New York, but coast to coast.

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