With Malice Toward None: A Biography of Abraham Lincoln

by Stephen B. Oates

Lincoln gladly endorsed because it took from the “wealthy few” and not the “many poor.”

He conceded that American blacks were suffering “the greatest wrong inflicted on any people.” Yet it was impossible for them to be free in this country.

North, Negroes rejected colonization—this was their country too!—and petitioned Lincoln to deport