Returning free Northern Blacks supplied Reconstruction’s Southern Black leadership

Evidence

Free Negroes from the North, most of whom had been born in the South and knew conditions, came back in considerable numbers during Reconstruction, and took their place as leaders. The result was that the Negroes were not, as they are sometimes painted, simply a mass of densely ignorant toilers… — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 964

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Land reform demands from Black laborers pushed Reconstruction leadership toward economic emancipation — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 965; Reconstruction suddenly enfranchised a Black electorate that was overwhelmingly working class — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 962
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Land reform demands from Black laborers pushed Reconstruction leadership toward economic emancipation — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 965; Reconstruction suddenly enfranchised a Black electorate that was overwhelmingly working class — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 962