Description
In the 1619 Project, Nikole Hannah-Jones argued that Lincoln “opposed slavery as a cruel system at odds with American ideals, but he also opposed Black equality.” Ultimately, she said, Lincoln wanted Black Americans to leave the United States. This program interrogates those incendiary claims, first by exploring Lincoln’s long-standing support for the government-promoted settlement of free Black Americans beyond the borders of the United States and then by examining his impressive re-imagining of the Constitution to refashion that proslavery document into a blueprint to attack racial bondage.
