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No one should be surprised that a prominent Black person would help to re-segregate our nation. Back in the 1870s Martin Robison Delany, the highest ranking officer in the Union Army during the civil war and an outspoken abolitionist, did just that in South Carolina. Delany campaigned for former Confederate general Wade Hampton III for governor who restored white supremacy in South Carolina after a violent election campaign during which 150 Black people were killed. https://theicarian.substack.com/p/martin-robison-delany-an-extraordinary