The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896 (Oxford History of the United States)

by Richard White

But as Schurz reported in 1865, and the slaveholders themselves admitted, “the transition of the southern negro from slavery to freedom was untarnished by any deeds of blood, and the apprehension [of African American violence] … proved utterly groundless.”