Northern abolitionists opposed slavery yet still viewed Black Americans as foreign to the republic.

Evidence

But Northerner supporters of Abdul Rahman were not exactly believers in the beloved community, either. They, too, were thoroughly racist in their attitudes toward black people—they just happened to be opposed to slavery because they saw it as a sinful stain on the American soul. Their answer to the problem of freed slaves was to transport them—that is, English-speaking, American-born blacks—to Africa. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 371

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• XREF: Echoes the chapter’s central pivot from interrogating the ‘them’ to dissecting the fearer even among apparent allies; parallels the reader’s framing of Islamophobia as a condition of the fearer rather than the feared.