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Where we meme (joking in tone and detail, serious in sentiment) about General Sherman, the Civil War, and how the secesh traitors had it coming.
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Abolitionists openly operated papers in the North. They were a major part of the Republican Party at the time, especially amongst the so-called Radical Republicans.
... many literally did admit to it after the war. Many admitted to it during the war.
So no source for their numbers? I have DuBois's own words saying people in the North didn't care about black people. Where's your proof?
You have Dubois saying
in reference to how even polite Northerners still saw African-Americans in terms of being an 'issue' that needed to be addressed, even if they phrased it positively. He was not seen as a 'fellow American', but still othered, even if in an innocently insensitive way.
For those curious, this is a more full quote:
Radical Republicans made up the majority of the Republican majority by 1864 in the Civil War. That would mandate a plurality of voters in at least a quarter of the nation's electoral districts. Arguably, they made up an outright majority of Congress, which would mandate a plurality of voters in at least half of the nation's electoral districts.