Southerners did not flock to become Republicans as the North desired, but when they were allowed to be Democrats, they worked hard to restore legitimate legislation and patriotism.
Meanwhile the attitude of Southerners toward the Blacks remained the same as before the war. Declaring a people free did not erase the subordinate and inferior image that the Whites had of the Blacks. Even those blacks who had served in the military faced persecution and prejudice. A Colonel Whittlesey testified before the Joint Committee on Reconstruction in 1866 and described several acts of violence he had witnessed:
Another case is that of Charles Everett, late 2d sergeant in the United States colored troops. Mr. Everett, since his discharge, has lived in this town, a quiet, peaceful citizen, has taken to himself a wife, and attended to his own business. He has had no quarrel nor unpleasant controversy with anyone, white or black. Hence his colored neighbors were surprised at the attack upon him.... His dwelling was forced open. He was ordered to get up. He came out of his bedroom, when one inquired. 'Is this Sergeant Everett?' He replied, 'Yes'. Then the same man... felled him to the floor by striking him over the head with the butt of his gun. He knew nothing more, and lay for...
By enacting the Black Codes, starting in 1865, following the 13th Amendment, however, and by giving birth, in 1866, to the Ku Klux Klan and its reign of terror over the freedmen, the southern states successfully circumvented the actual enjoyment by blacks of most of the freedoms granted them by the 13th Amendment. Primary Sources The Constitution of the United States of America [Article II]. A History of the American People. Ed.
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