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Lincoln even referred to colonization in the field of the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, his September 1862 notice to the South to he would free of charge all slaves in the field of Southern territory if the rebellion continued. Unlike selected others, Lincoln forever promoted a voluntary colonization, fairly than forcing blacks to leave.But historians diverge on whether Lincoln enthused away from colonization afterward he issued the legitimate Emancipation Proclamation on Jan. 1, 1863, or else whether he continued to support it.Magness and Pages order offers evidence with the aim of Lincoln continued to support colonization, engaging in vogue secret international relations with the British to begin a colony in vogue British Honduras, at present Belize.amongst the records found by the British archives is an 1863 order from Lincoln conceding a British agent say-so to recruit volunteers in lieu of a Belize colony.