Republicans framed the Fifteenth Amendment as complete fulfillment of Black freedom.

Evidence

“The Fifteenth Amendment confers upon the African race the care of its own destiny. It places their fortunes in their own hands,” imagined Ohio congressman James A. Garfield. An Illinois newspaper proclaimed, “The negro is now a voter and a citizen. Let him hereafter takes his chances in the battle of life.” — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 664

Categorization

• XREF: Useful historical example of the assimilationist move — granting formal citizenship and declaring the work done — that the reader wants to catalog for placing arguments into Kendi’s three-way scheme.