On the Fact that a Large Percentage of the North's Hard-Core Abolitionists Were Exceedingly Racist to the Point Where They Either Wanted the Freed Blacks Shipped Off to Africa (or Some Other Destination In South America or the Caribbean), Forced to Live On Some Federal Reservation, or Confined to One or Two of the Southern States

Yeah, they did not want to live anywhere near black people. Here are just a few of their thoughts. 1) "The free states should say, confine the Negro to the smallest possible area. Hem him in, coop him up, slough him off, preserve just so much of North America as is possible for the white man." Shepherd Pike, The New York Tribune. 2) "The dark man, the black man, declines, it will happen by and by when the black man will only be fit for museums." Ralph Waldo Emerson. 3) William Seward spoke wistfully of, "the natural elimination of blacks in America" and of how the Negro was a, "foreign and feeble element". 4) While Lincoln was not an abolitionist, he is often aligned with them, and to Mr. Lincoln, "the troublesome presence of free Negroes", was clearly the impetus for his plans for colonization. 5) Well-respected historian, George Frederickson, summed up the abolitionist mindset citing their focus on, "the elimination of the free Negro though planned colonization, migration, and extermination through natural processes (the belief being that blacks couldn't take care of themselves). 6) Joseph Henry Allen in the Unitarian journal urged that blacks be "herded" onto federal reservations in Florida and Texas.......I could go on but I think that you get the drift........................................................................................As for why the abolitionists wanted to free the black slaves, it was apparently for religious reasons; their belief that a slave's soul couldn't make it to heaven and so in order to beef up heaven's roster, abolition (followed closely by colonization) was the only option, I guess.