Day 141: Letter about the Chinese, 1885, on Substack

Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act twenty years after the end of the Civil War.

Republican voters in 1885 were the same men who fought and saw their comrades die as they sang to the Union ideology of racial equality. Did they just miss the correlation?

No, sources from the period show they saw it. So how did this rhetoric shift?

Instead of theories, I like to learn through stories, like this example from a southern Ohio paper in the early 1880s, from How We Got Here on Substack.

https://alisonpeck.substack.com/p/letter-from-tramp-printer-about-the