May 3, 2013

A brief synopsis of Abraham Lincoln’s failed colonization plan on the Ile a Vache, Haiti, which I authored for the New York Times’ Disunion.

From Q&A: Remember That Time Abraham Lincoln Tried to Get the Slaves to Leave America?: “Colonization is one of those decisions that falls into greater uncertainty simply because Lincoln did not know how the end of slavery was going to emerge, or what it was going to look like. If we accept that about him, it makes