1. Democrats voted to keep Africans Americans in slavery, opposing the 13th Amendment which officially freed the slaves. Only four Democrats voted for it.
2. Republicans also passed the 14th Amendment which granted slaves U.S. citizenship; Democrats voted against it.
3. Republicans also passed the 15th Amendment which gave slaves the right to vote. Not a single one of the 56 Democrats in Congress voted for it.
4.Furthermore, Republicans passed all of the Civil Rights laws of the 1860s — including the Civil Rights Act of 1866 and the Reconstruction Act of 1867 following the Civil War.
5. The Republican Party itself was founded as the “anti-slavery party” in 1854. The party subsequently gave us President Abraham Lincoln and ultimately, the Emancipation Proclamation which led to the liberation of slaves.
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“Democratic Party continued down their path to deny African Americans their rights. Wikipedia refers to this as the era of “disenfranchisement” when “Democrats worked to exclude blacks” from civil liberties.”
The modern welfare state was supposed to atone for all that, but it didn’t. It created a golden shackles, dehumanizing vote buying system.