PC: Governer Douglass?

As the title says, what are the chances that Frederick Douglass can get elected Governor of any state after the Civil War? IIRC only the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, and South Carolina had an African American majority. In theory, Douglass can win the majority from just the black vote. What would the consequences of Douglass seeing an opportunity to run? How violent would the reaction be?
 

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PBS Pinchback lasted 24 days in Lousiana, and he was

PBS Pinchback lasted 24 days in Lousiana, and he was biracial.

Douglass would undoubtedly been quite capable as an executive, but the reaction to an avowed black abolitionist being elected during Reconstruction would have been severe among the unreconstructed.

Very severe.

Like, Colfax Massacre severe, presumably.

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I rather suspect that the only way Douglass would be elected governor would be as a power-brokered political statement on the part of an abolitionist Northern State. Probably a small one. Rhode Island? Vermont? something like that?
 
I rather suspect that the only way Douglass would be elected governor would be as a power-brokered political statement on the part of an abolitionist Northern State. Probably a small one. Rhode Island? Vermont? something like that?

Would said Northern state pick Douglass over any other white Radical Republican? Is it possible he could get elected in Maryland with Republican backing, his home state? It has a black population somewhere in the mid-twenties, and probably wouldn't immediately drive him out.
 
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