![]() ![]() ![]() On those terms, Lincoln appeared to be asking the once-oppressed to volunteer to remove themselves from the place where they had been oppressed, so their oppressors could breathe more freely. He read to them a prepared statement, urging them to recruit volunteers for colonization outside the United States.Ĭolonization meant that once freed, former slaves would have to relocate, preferably for a reservation Congress would purchase in Central America. In August 1862, Lincoln invited a committee of black men to the White House. In project leader Nikole Hannah-Jones’ verdict, Lincoln, too, is guilty, largely because of one incident. ![]() But Lincoln? The author of the Emancipation Proclamation? ![]() Lincoln? Jefferson and Madison, we know, were slave-owners. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison come in for bashing. history, “re-centering” African-Americans as the sole banner-carriers of America’s principles, even as they have been ruthlessly smashed down, enslaved and obliterated from memory by more numerous and more powerful whites. The New York Times’ 1619 Project has aimed at nothing less than a revolutionary re-interpretation of the entirety of U.S. ![]()
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