Looks at Abraham Lincoln's pursuit of colonization in the Chiriquí region of Colombia (now Panamá), conventionally known as one of just two places that he seriously considered with respect to his policy of relocating African Americans. Challenging the standard account of the scheme's demise around October 1862 due to vehement Central American protest, this piece questions whether such a development really took the president by surprise.
Seminar on Land Settlement Policy sponsored by the Southern Land Economics Research Committee and the Farm Foundation, Atlanta, Georgia, November 27, 1967. Reproduced as working materials by the Natural Resource Economics Division, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
