stand-aloof

Updated: January 28, 2026

The old official class being excluded to the number, it was estimated, of 160,000, and the stand-aloof policy, or drift rather, prevailing in the political field, it was the more lawless element that first began to conspicuously assert the white supremacy.

George Spring Merriam - The Negro and the Nation: A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement