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Monday, March 9, 2020

FEW THINGS MORE EMBARRASSING IN WESTERN POLITICAL HISTORY THAN FREED NEGRO SLAVE SUFFRAGE

By 1870 we were the laughingstock of the civilized world.

A 1867 political cartoon depicting an African American man casting his ballot during the Georgetown elections as Andrew Johnson and others look on angrily. 


This was not at all how it was, in the late 1860s and 1870s, with occupying Union troops enforcing Republican votes,  using freed slaves, marching them around polling stations, and installing only negro puppet local officials:




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