"Republicans did develop a policy which recognized the essential humanity of the Negro, and demanded protection for certain basic rights which the Democrats denied him. Although deeply flawed by an acceptance of many racial stereotypes, and limited by the free labor ideology's assumption that the major responsibility for a person's success or failure rested with himself and not society, the Republicans stand on race relations went against the prevailing opinion of the 1850s, and proved a distinct political liability in a racist society."
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Eric Foner, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party before the Civil War, pp. 261–262
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