
Part One: How The U.S.A. Murdered Panama with Chelsea Manning
Behind the Bastards
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Abe's First Idea Was Coal Mining
Abraham Lincoln's first idea was actually Panama. He thought it would be the perfect place to send freed slaves. Columbia, however, saw the plan as a kind of subtle invasion. And many free blacks in the United States greeted Lincoln's proposal with hostility.
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