[paltz]

Absolutely. Andrew Johnson was pro-slavery and obstructed the Reconstruction efforts of the Republican-controlled Congress.

[rxh4n1]

“Absolutely. Andrew Johnson was pro-slavery and obstructed the Reconstruction efforts of the Republican-controlled Congress.”

No. It was a class thing. Johnson was a self-made man who hated slavery and the slavers, and by extension hated the blacks. He was from East Tennessee, which was a Unionist stronghold.