To some degree. The other side of that is people like Frederick Douglass were advocating "radicalism" that is the political view of racial integration advocated in the 21st Century and while Andrew Johnson had one of the most obscene racist Administrations in US history, Grant was the only President until LBJ to try at all to do something for Civil Rights for everybody (except women).
There *were* people of the time who did advocate full racial equality and one of my favorite Union Generals, George H. Thomas was a Virginian who fought for the Blue.
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Date: 2011-04-20 05:47 pm (UTC)There *were* people of the time who did advocate full racial equality and one of my favorite Union Generals, George H. Thomas was a Virginian who fought for the Blue.