Posted on 06/17/2016 9:00:19 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
This is a continuation of the list of steps benevolent Republicans took to help the slaves held by Southern Democrats.
On March 3, 1865 a Republican Congress established the Freedmen’s Bureau to provide health care, education and technical assistance to emancipated slaves.
On April 8, 1865 the 13th Amendment, banning slavery, passed the Senate with 100% Republican support, but 63% Democrat opposition.
In February 1866, Republican Congressman Thaddeus Stevens of Pennsylvania introduced legislation to give “40 acres and a mule” to male former slaves. Democrat President Andrew Johnson vetoed the measure.
Overriding Democrat Andrew Johnson’s veto, Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866 which affirmed the citizenship of African Americans.
When the Republican Congress passed the 14th Amendment giving African Americans rights to due process and “equal protection” under law it did so without a single Democrat Representative’s vote. When the Republican Senate voted to pass the 14th Amendment not a single Democrat supported it.
On November 22, 1865 Republicans denounced the Democrat legislature of Mississippi for enacting “black codes” which were laws devised by the Democrat controlled Southern States to suppress...
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Unfortunately republicans are also now democrats, and they want to enslave everybody no matter what color.
Northern states had their black codes. too.
"[R]ace prejudice seems stronger in those states that have abolished slavery than in those where it still exists, and nowhere is it more intolerant than in those states where slavery was never known."
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So the Negro [in the North] is free, but he cannot share the rights, pleasures, labors, griefs, or even the tomb of him whose equal he has been declared; there is nowhere where he can meet him, neither in life nor in death.
In the South, where slavery still exists, less trouble is taken to keep the Negro apart: they sometimes share the labors and the pleasures of the white men; people are prepared to mix with them to some extent; legislation is more harsh against them, but customs are more tolerant and gentle --Alexis De Tocqueville
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