War labor and soldiering demands, not moral awakening, ended colonization

Evidence

President Lincoln still held out hope for colonization early in 1863. He advanced money to a Black minister establishing a settlement in Liberia, and he complained to an Ohio congressman that he did not “know what we should do with these people—Negroes—after peace came.” War demands for able-bodied soldiers, and the postwar demands for able-bodied and loyal southern labor and voters, had begun to shift public opinion away from colonization. The debacle of the Lincoln administration’s colonization schemes sealed the movement’s fate. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 603

Categorization

• XREF: Evidence for Kendi’s central claim that policy/self-interested demands drive the shift away from racist policy — here even Lincoln’s abandonment of colonization is driven by demand for labor and voters, not by changed beliefs. — connects to: Slavery is a continuing state of war, not a legitimate compact — John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 32