The Southern Democrats negatively impacted freed slaves during and after reconstruction because they didn’t treat them fairly and took away some of their rights. One piece of evidence to support my claim is, “Redeemers were a faction of Southern Democrats that continued to resist Reconstruction. Concentrated on economic issues. Regained control of the Democratic Party in the South. (Boundless)” This is really nauseating to me because I believe everyone deserves to be treated equally because we're all people and should be treated like we are, and Reconstruction was starting to accept African American like equals, but the Southern Democrats were resisting this. This shows how they are negatively impacting freed slaves during and after Reconstruction
