Yep. The Democrats owned the slaves, and the Republicans freed them.
And after they were freed, the Democrats were the party of Jim Crow and the KKK.
That went all the way up to the time of Lyndon Johnson, who decided it was time to change the propaganda line, blame the Republicans for racism, and put blacks on the Democrat plantation where the taxpayers would pay them to be single parents, not get jobs, hate whitey, and vote Democrat.
That worked pretty well. Hollywood, the media, and the academics were delighted to lie their heads off in support.
Screw the blacks and make them vote for you. And screw the working taxpayers. And then go home with tons of money in your pockets.
Nice!
“I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.” -Frederick Douglass