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[[File:Race_Relations_in_the_Urban_South.jpg|thumbnail|left|250px|<i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195022831/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0195022831&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=ae63ece7174632e4b4bbdbcb6f4c1d04 Race Relations in the Urban South: 1865-1890]</i> by Howard N. Rabinowitz]]''This article was originally published on [http://videri.org/index.php?title=Race_Relations_in_the_Urban_South| Videri.org] and is republished here with their permission.''
<i>[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195022831/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0195022831&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=ae63ece7174632e4b4bbdbcb6f4c1d04 Race Relations in the Urban South : 1865-1890]</i> traces the origins of segregation and the conceit of “separate but equal.” Rabinowitz finds that the influx of emancipated slaves into southern cities created new frictions among white Democrats, white Republicans, and newly-freed blacks. Segregation offered an uneasy compromise between the three parties. White Democrats sought new ways to control blacks instead of slavery. Republicans strove to balance their appeal to white voters with a degree of support for blacks. Burgeoning black communities looked for whatever social and political gains they could find, and many viewed separation as an improvement over exclusion. “Separate but equal,” however, offered much more in theory than practice, and, by the end of the nineteenth century, most of what blacks gained during Reconstruction had been reversed.
The Thirteenth Amendment may have abolished slavery, but it did not erase the culture of white supremacy that justified it. White southerners commonly believed that black men and women had needed slavery to make them civilized. As large numbers of freed slaves migrated to southern cities, in which antebellum blacks had been scarce, whites look for different ways to keep them in check. A chief method was a legal system that held whites and blacks to different standards, even when the race was not an explicit criterion of the law.
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