Black leaders in 1865 predicted persistent Southern prejudice against them

Evidence

When they asked Frazier whether freedmen preferred to live among whites or in separate black colonies, he said: “I would prefer to live by ourselves, for there is a prejudice against us in the South that will take years to get over; but I do not know that I can answer for my brethren.” Each minister had a chance to answer for himself. They all agreed with “brother Frazier” except for James Lynch, a twenty-six-year-old minister from Baltimore, Maryland, where he had been born free. In contrast to Frazier and the others, he felt that black and white “should not be separated but live together.” — Dorothy A. Brown, Getting to Reparations, 13

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Frazier’s ‘prejudice… will take years to get over’ reads as a point-scoring observation for the saturated-system argument: the harm was foreseen at the founding moment of freedom.