Thread by @PhilWMagness

This is a particularly strange meme, considering that the Pan-Africanism movement originated with Alexander Crummell...who was also a leading proponent of Liberian emigration.

Crummell even met with Abraham Lincoln at the White House in 1862 as a representative of the Liberian government. His purpose? To negotiate a deal that would allow them to access colonization money for the transport of freedmen from Baltimore to Monrovia. civilwarmonitor.com/commentary/wit…

Du Bois, of course, was deeply influenced by Crummell...which @d_kuehn would know if he bothered to read Du Bois's works, as opposed to simply name-dropping him to signal political affiliation with the 1619 Project crowd.

@D_Kuehn What a silly little creature you are, Daniel.

Crummell was a primary intellectual influence on Du Bois - something the latter made abundantly clear.

Crummell is also a direct, explicit connection to Liberian colonization, right down to meeting with Abraham Lincoln about it.

@D_Kuehn As relates to the 1619 Project, NHJ cited Du Bois & Delany to rebuff the idea that Lincoln's colonizationism had any appeal to African-Americans. It's true that a majority of blacks rejected Lincoln's overture. But those are both bad choices to make that argument.

@D_Kuehn Why?

1. Delany was a supporter of Liberian emigration, both before & after the Civil War.

2. Du Bois, a Pan-Africanist, was deeply influenced by Crummell - one of the few black leaders who openly worked w Lincoln on Liberian colonization - and moved to Africa himself in 1961.

@D_Kuehn If you wanted to make the case that most African Americans rejected Lincoln's colonization pitch, great! There are plenty of Frederick Douglass quotes to that effect. But NHJ chose Delany and Du Bois. Why? Because she is deeply ignorant of history & stumbles through it like that.