It was certainly not the vision of the founders: Among the Romans emancipation required but one effort. The slave, when made free, might mix with, without stain

It was certainly not the vision of the founders: Among the Romans emancipation required but one effort. The slave, when made free, might mix with, without staining the blood of his master. But with us a second is necessary, unknown to history. When freed, he is to be removed beyond the reach of mixture. - Thomas Jefferson [1] Even the lauded Abraham Lincoln advocated for the removal of freed Blacks, and made several attempts at it [2], and in the Douglas-Lincoln debates said: I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will for ever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. [3] (His opponent, Stephen Douglas, was even more opposed to the idea.) [1] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h490t.html https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h490t.html [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_and_slavery#Colonization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln_and_slavery#Co... [3] Basler, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, Vol. II, pp. 235-236