Freedpeople themselves saw Republicans as ridden with anti-Black contempt

Evidence

Repulsed, Black Americans came together for their first national convention in a decade. They blasted Republicans for remaining “largely under the influence of the prevailing contempt for the character and rights of the colored man.” — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 613

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• SHARE: For anyone studying Reconstruction-era Black political organizing — the first national convention in a decade and its exact rebuke wording are narrow, concretely quotable details.