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          @tanehisicoates My feeling is like yours in the blog post; he was sincerely antislavery (colonization presupposed emancipation) +
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        @tanehisicoates And he followed the Declaration's logic farther than its author did, and with real action. +
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      @tanehisicoates But didn't yet fully embrace vision of racial equality within diverse republic. Similar to Lincoln in this way. @karpmj
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    @tanehisicoates Most charitable reading of Coles-like colonizationism is that he realized how powerful racism in US was & would remain.
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      @tanehisicoates But there's debate among early republic historians at present about whether that's too charitable a read of colonizationism.
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        @tanehisicoates At any rate, I bring it up not to challenge your point about Coles, that he (unlike others) made the hard choice ...
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          @tanehisicoates … but to further underscore just how complicated and hard (and still not entirely "clean") the choice was.
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