Background
In the USA, there are two main political parties: Democrat and Republican. Abraham Lincoln, the president at the time during the Civil War was a Republican; therefore after slavery, once African-Americans had gotten into politics they joined in the same political party as Lincoln. In their eyes, he was a part of the reason for the their freedo…
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