Colonization of freed slaves was long seen by many as an answer to the problem of slavery. One of President Abraham Lincoln‘s policies during his administration was the voluntary colonization of African American Freedmen. The Pre-Emancipation Proclamation offered support for the colonization of free Blacks outside of the United States. Historians have debated and have remained divided over whether Lincoln’s racial views (or merely his acceptance of the political reality) included that African Americans could not live in the same society as white Americans. Benjamin Butler stated that Lincoln in 1865 firmly denied that “racial harmony” would be possible in the United States. One view (known to scholars as the “lullaby” theory) is that Lincoln adopted colonization for Freed men in order to make his Emancipation Proclamation politically acceptable. This view has been challenged with new evidence of the Lincoln administration’s attempts to colonize freed men in British Honduras after the Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863