With this resentment rapidly growing, we begin to see an emergence of the white supremacist movement that devoured the post-reconstruction South. The formation of the Freedman’s Bureau, which established protective settlements and privileges for former slaves, further aggravating white resentment. Fearing a complete loss of power over the ex-slaves, the Southern states began to issue regulations that they felt would re-establish their control over the newly freed slave communities. And shortly after the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, which expanded the grounds of the Emancipation Proclamation to include the abolishment of slavery in the United States, the Southern states began their silent revolt, with two significant barriers eminently before them.

The passage of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments proved to be two significant barriers to

Lynching, a common practice of disciplining Blacks in the South, makes several appearances throughout the story. The most significant reference of the practice was demonstrated following the death of Mrs. Polly Ochiltree. It was thought that if a Black man did not assimilate to the ideologies of white supremacy that he would be lynched for trying to hold power (submission = peaceful coexistence). Often times the black man would be blamed for a crime that he did not commit for the simple reason that no one could fathom the idea of a white man harming someone of his own race. This is evident in the book immediately following the robbery and murder of Mrs. Polly Ochiltree. After it happened the town charged Old Mr. Delemere’s servant, Sandy Campbell, with the crime and sentenced him to be lynched to death for what he had done. In reality Old Mr. Delemere’s very own grandson Tom, a known gambler and drinker, committed the devastating crime.

Chesnutt makes specific reference to three monumental forms of racial discrimination and immense Black hatred that permeated the South: the emergence of the Ku Klux Klan in Wilmington (Wellington), the “American habit of lynching” and the separate car rule. Each of these discriminative acts, having played a significant role in the re-establishment of white supremacy in the South, as well as in Wilmington (Wellington), NC.

In response to these changes, the states organized efforts to limit the political, social, and economic status of the freed slaves. Since the states knew that they could not prevent the freed slaves from voting. Since the majority of the community worked menial jobs and could not read, they issued poll taxes and literacy tests to increase their prevention of freed slaves voting. States also issued a formalized segregation process known as de jure segregation, separating the Southern community on the gr

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