Many of the abolitionists were not only anti slavery.
They were also virulent white racists themselves.
Most people, white or negro, do not know that.
More racist abolitionists wanted negroes transported.
Non abolitionist Republicans also wanted transportation.
The very radical small minority white racist abolitionists for immediate unconditional emancipation did not even care about transportation. This was truly a fadical fringe group among Northern white racists. it is important to realize that at the time of the Ccivil War, all white Western Europeans were white racists. Non white races were subject races, and were inferior. These race related ideas, and race related science, and pseudo science, were based fundamentally on Western Enlightenment liberal ideas.
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