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Looking at an election map of 1872 and noticing that the 'Black Belt' in the south was all in for Grant, why? Horace Greeley was also an abolitionist Republican, and as an advocate for socialism, wouldn't newly freed slaves have gotten more from him then from Grant?

by /u/Blacksmith_Most in /r/AskHistorians

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