Lincoln and the case for Ben Butler’s Colonization Story

150 years ago this week an unusual discussion took place at the White House. On a mid-April morningĀ Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler met with Abraham Lincoln to discuss what Butler later recounted as a proposal to resettle several thousandĀ freed slaves on the Isthmus of Panama. It would prove to be their final encounter, as Lincoln …

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