{"id":24156,"date":"2017-03-28T10:47:37","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T14:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=24156"},"modified":"2017-03-28T10:48:40","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T14:48:40","slug":"racism-and-the-founding-of-the-gop-abraham-lincoln-the-civil-war-and-the-real-history-of-the-republican-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2017\/03\/28\/racism-and-the-founding-of-the-gop-abraham-lincoln-the-civil-war-and-the-real-history-of-the-republican-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Racism and the founding of the GOP: Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War and the real history of the Republican Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those looking for a more detailed description of how the new Republican Party was formed, one can start with a Google search formation of the republican party<\/a>. One of the items I found was this Salon<\/em> article Racism and the founding of the GOP: Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War and the real history of the Republican Party<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\nThe political party that grew from these concerns over slavery was the Republican Party. In turn, it nourished and carried forward the public\u2019s anti-slavery feelings. But the party was an amalgam of strangely different elements. It contained men from different political backgrounds, and it combined antislavery convictions and antiblack prejudices.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For any topic as complicated as this is, I wouldn’t expect simple answers. This article can only be expected to provide food for thought, not a definitive answer to many questions. I don’t know if reading the book from which this article was excerpted, Lincoln’s Dilemma: Blair, Sumner, and the Republican Struggle over Racism and Equality in the Civil War Era (A Nation Divided: Studies in the Civil War Era)<\/a> will provide any more details. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those looking for a more detailed description of how the new Republican Party was formed, one can start with a Google search formation of the republican party. One of the items I found was this Salon article Racism and the founding of the GOP: Abraham Lincoln, the Civil War and the real history of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24158,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24156\/revisions\/24158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}