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There were, of course, many individual exceptions, but the prevailing sentiment with which the negro was regarded, was one of blind, baffled, revengeful hatred.
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Whitelaw Reid
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Reid describes the prevailing negative sentiment towards African Americans in the post-war South as one of hatred.
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