Category: White Supremacy Apologetics
Oppose Salmon P. Chase “The High Priest of Negro Suffrage” for President June 1868
The cartoon above mocks the attempt by Tammany Hall Democrats to nominate the pro-civil rights Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Salmon P. Chase as…
Democrat Explains Why Southern Whites Resist “Black Rule” July 16, 1868
Allen Granberry Thurman (November 13, 1813 – December 12, 1895) is hardly a household name today, but in the mid-19th Century he was a well-known…
“Irishmen And Germans Read This” The Mongrel Party’s Attack on Immigrants June, 1868
With the election of 1868, Democratic propaganda combined immigrant fears of the latent Know Nothingism of some Republicans and white immigrants’ concerns about their own…
When the Great Historian of Reconstruction W.E.B. Du Bois Got a White Supremacist Laughed Off the Stage
W.E.B. Du Bois was the seminal figure in modern Reconstruction studies. The brilliant intellectual was one of the most important historians of the American experience….
Arguing Against Civil Rights in 1875 “You have not the power to make him white, and he never will be satisfied”
Thomas Whitehead was a former Confederate officer who was elected to Congress from Virginia in 1872. In 1875 he gave a speech opposing the Civil…
Grant Will Turn the South into “the howling wilderness of African barbarism” July 1868
Yesterday I posted an attack on U.S. Grant from the political left in which abolition activist Anna Dickinson went after Grant’s supposedly soft support for…
NY Times: The Impact of Forced Medical Research on Slaves on Modern Medicine
Illustration: Escaped slave John Brown The next installment of the New York Times’s new series commemorating the 400th Anniversary of the arrival of the first…
“Seymour & Blair-A White Man’s Government” & “Useless Grant” Democratic Slogans of 1868
In the 1868 Presidential Election, the Democratic Party’s Northern and Southern wings were reunited for the first time in eight years. The reunited party held…
Article in Jacobin on the Memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction
Robert Greene II, a PhD student at the University of South Carolina, has a brief article in Jacobin on the memory of the Civil War…
The Dangerous Idea that Only White People Can Govern Themselves: Horace Greeley
Adam Serwer at The Atlantic Magazine has an interesting article this week on the persistent American idea that only white people are capable of governing…
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