Patrick Byrne

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Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne

Reconstruction did bring much improvement... Under Union occupation, Blacks had real voting rights: 21 Blacks were elected to the House. 2 Blacks (one a former slave) were elected to Senate. The military & civil service became integrated (-ish). — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 14, 2023

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Patrick Byrne @PatrickByrne

Lincoln is criticized for not being as abolitionist as Douglass would have liked. He was a politician, he said one thing one place & other things other places. But on balance, we fought a Civil War over slavery (as @DrIbram acknowledges). Lincoln led that war. That counts. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 14, 2023

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But Blacks were also stymied by new laws such as, "You can't be Black and be a butcher." In 1873 SCOTUS allowed this (Slaughterhouse Cases"). In 1893 (Plessy v. Fergusson) SCOTUS endorsed "separate but equal." Thus arose the Jim Crow South. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 14, 2023