Smithsonian - Annette Gordon-Reed: The Fight Over Andrew Johnson’s Impeachment - "hated blacks"--I have no idea, but maybe President Johnson had an inkling of the corrupt criminal slaughterhouses Black cities would become worldwide --tma

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Obviously, this was about much more than an entertaining trial. The confrontation between Johnson and the men who wanted to remove him from office, the so-called Radical Republicans, was a fight over the future direction of the United States; a fight with implications that reverberate to this day. Johnson’s real crime in the eyes of opponents was that he had used the power of the presidency to prevent Congress from giving aid to the four million African-Americans freed after the Civil War. Johnson’s deep antipathy toward black people, not his view of the Constitution, guided his actions.

What did it mean for the country’s future that the man at the head of the government—at a moment when black people’s fortunes were being decided—hated blacks? ...

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/fight-andrew-johnson-impeachment-fight-future-united-states-180967502/#UoOxudLKSfctT1BW.99