ON THIS DAY in 1877, Rutherford B. Hayes bought the United States presidency from Samuel Tilden, the price being a few million African souls, who were sold back into slavery in a process known to Southern historians as “Redemption.”
Edited by H. Albertus Boli, LL.D.
ON THIS DAY in 1877, Rutherford B. Hayes bought the United States presidency from Samuel Tilden, the price being a few million African souls, who were sold back into slavery in a process known to Southern historians as “Redemption.”