l ashley, zechariah chance andas let, salman, all these people, t say, and that try to detail it. it really pushed reason to glory lincoln himself said i was driven to it, literally driven e to a. >> he said that abraham "abr lincoln's white dream. what does that mean? >> it means contrary to what most people think abraham lincoln's dpestesir .. was to deport all black people and create an all-white nation. it sounds like a wild idea now, and it is a wild idea, but from about 1852 until his death, he worked feverishly to try to create deportation plans, colonization plans to send black people either to africa or south america or to the islands of the sea. most people -- and you know the story -- one of his gatest utterances, people quote it all the time, copeland's grea thing, we cannot escape history. the last best hope of the world. he said these words in a state of the union message on december 1, 1862, in which he asked congress to pass three constitutional amendments -- one to buy the slaves, second to declare free all people who had actually escaped, but the third one, his p