re: #67 HappyWarrior

And by the way Democrats weren’t the only slaveowners. This lie needs to stop. There were Whigs that owned slaves too. The Republican Party to its credit was founded as a party opposed to the expansion of slavery. Too bad the Republican Party has been pretty much down hill on civil rights since the centennial of the Civil War. It’s a shame too.

And students of history will know that the Republican party at the end of reconstruction felt they owed more attention to white business owners than to African Americans; they were helped enough.