Lincoln's Panama Plan

Lincoln's Panama Plan - The New York Times Web Archive

Abraham Lincoln, “Address on Colonization to a Deputation of Negroes, August 14, 1862” in “Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln,” vol. 5;

When Abraham Lincoln Tried to Resettle Free Black Americans in ...

In Kock's plan, the former slaves would work on a cotton plantation. Each family would receive homes and access to hospitals and schools. And ...

Linconia - Wikipedia

Abraham Lincoln proposed the colonization of the Chiriquí Province, now part of Panama, to create Linconia.

Lincoln to Slaves: Go Somewhere Else - Pieces of History

By early 1861, Lincoln ordered a secret trip to modern-day Panama to investigate the land of a Philadelphian named Ambrose Thompson.

Abraham Lincoln's disastrous effort to get Black people to leave the ...

The disastrous mission — envisioned as the first installment of a grand colonization scheme that would settle 5,000 Black people on the island – ...

Abraham Lincoln and the Politics of Black Colonization

... Panama.[9]. In his annual message to Congress in December of that year ... Lincoln's plan of colonization. The literature on Lincoln's philosophy of ...

Lincoln's Plan for Colonizing the Emancipated Negroes - Duke People

of the State of Panama,22 near the republics of New Gran- ada and Costa Rica. The situation seemed favorable not only because of the ...

Abraham Lincoln's Rejected Proposal for a Central American Colony

in Panama City, 1856," The Hispanic American Historical Review,. 1990 ... Lincoln's first colonization plan to fail. Page 20. Harris. 64.

Samuel Clark POMEROY, Ambrose W. THOMPSON

... scheme to resettle free black Americans in the Chiriqui province of what is now Panama ... "Lincoln's Panama Plan," New York Times, Aug. 16, 2012. Schelp, " ...

Remember That Time Abraham Lincoln Tried to Get the Slaves to ...

He proposes Panama, he alludes to that as the primary colony of the time, but it's a broader interest as well. He also says: we recognize that ...

Lincoln and Colonization - Essential Civil War Curriculum

Abraham Lincoln was a proponent of colonization (funding the removal of freed African Americans to Africa or the Caribbean) from sometime in the 1840s

Colonization - Abraham Lincoln Historical Society

At the beginning of his presidency Lincoln took important steps towards a colonization plan ... After the failure of the Chiquiri colonization project in Panama, ...

"Lincoln's Evolving Racial Views" - Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential ...

By this time, plans to resettle African Americans on allegedly coal-rich lands in Panama had collapsed, as had negotiations for other Latin American sites.

The African American Delegation to Abraham Lincoln: A Reappraisal

Chiriquí region of what is now Panama would be an auspicious destination ... a strong supporter of Lincoln's plan, but he did not deny that he had gone to see ...

Colonization by the Numbers - Phillip W. Magness

Despite the lack of willing participants, Lincoln initiated colonization with significantly larger plans in mind. In 1862 he obtained congressional approval ...

Lincoln and Chiriquí Colonization Revisited - Taylor & Francis Online

Challenging the standard account of the scheme's demise around October 1862 due to vehement Central American protest, this piece questions whether such a ...

Lincoln Ponders Colonization and Emancipation

It was also unclear how many freed slaves would be willing to move to Central America. But Lincoln pushed the plan by asking if a treaty could ...

Did Abraham Lincoln plan to ship blacks out of the country after the ...

Lincoln did at one point consider a plan to resettle freed slaves in either Panama or Honduras. Many people at the time felt that it was ...

Resettling freedmen in Panama | Civil War Potpourri

August 16, 2012, 12:30 pm Lincoln's Panama Plan By RICK BEARD On Aug. 14 1862, Abraham Lincoln hosted a "Deputation of Free Negroes" at the ...

Lincoln and Colonization of African Americans | C-SPAN.org

Colonization societies hoped that slavery could be ended or mitigated by moving Blacks to places such as Liberia or Panama. The Lincoln Group of ...