Publisher's Synopsis
Explores Abraham Lincoln's attitude toward the colonization of slaves - their resettlement to another country to live as free men. It has generally been accepted that Lincoln had abandoned his support for the idea by the time he signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Magness and Page have examined extensive archival materials to find evidence that he continued to pursue colonization for close to a year after emancipation, and that he may have been attempting to revive the policy at the time of his assassination.
