Abraham Lincoln wanted to deport the freed slaves. He addressed a gathering of freed slaves at the White House in 1862.
"You and we are different races. We have between us a broader difference than exists between almost any other two races. Whether it is right or wrong I need not discuss, but this physical difference is a great disadvantage to us both, as I think your race suffer very greatly, many of them by living among us, while ours suffer from your presence. In a word we suffer on each side. If this is admitted, it affords a reason at least why we should be separated."
They said he later "changed his mind". Sure he did. His successors chose to ignore black people entirely, which is why Jim Crow laws were ignored by Congress for 100 years. Still your hero?
