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On August 14, 1862, President Lincoln spoke to a delegation of African American clergymen. He was pushing his idea of creating a colony for free Blacks in Panama. The Chiriqui region to be exact. He urged the group to seriously consider his idea of allowing free Blacks to form a colony in Panama.

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