Apparently, American scholarship generally takes the view that, with the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln either gradually or abruptly abandoned his long held view of the necessity for transportation of freed black slaves elsewhere as colonists.
This view, either way, has been a lynchpin in so much of liberal American social thinking since the Civil War.
That turns out not to have been correct at all....
Colonization After Emancipation, Lincoln and the Movement for Black Resettlement
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