Forced Migration Quotes
Lincoln, just before the Civil War, quoted Jefferson that if slavery were not ended in America the results would be disastrous. But Lincoln at the time probably did not imagine how right Jefferson was, and Jefferson himself probably 1 how terrible the Civil War would be.
San Domingo was on the Island of Haiti. The government had attempted to have a colony there for American Blacks. Most Negroes of the time were not enthusiastic about colonization. The San Domingo colony was not very successful and most of the colonists were very unhappy. Lincoln gave this order and those who wished to do so were returned to the United States. This quotation also refutes the argument made by a that Lincoln favored forced emigration and colonization of Negroes. Early in his career had had favored colonization {590145}, as it was called, but never forced. See {40859}. And if he was in favor of forced colonization, the easiest thing he could have done was left the dissatisfied San Domingo colonists where they were instead of going to all the trouble to repatriate them.
In 2012 University President James Wagner and Gary Hauk, Emory's vice president of the Emory University made an apology for the anti-Semitic practices of earlier decades when the few Jewish Students who had been accepted because of their high grades and test scores were simply sent letters that their performance had been unsatisfactory and they were not allowed to return to school by the anti-Semitic Dean of the Dental School—John Buhler, . None of the Jewish had ever gotten a poor grade or been talked to about inadequate performance by any of the professors and the Dean would never give a reason that they had been flunked out. See {629670} for the courageous words of the apology.
