Flopper
Diamond Member
What I mean is people in the North did not understand that the economy in the South and a way of life that was older than the nation would collapse.Yeah, people as property is hard to understand.Slavery was way life in South that most people in the North did not understand.
Abolitionists believe once slaves were free they would become productive members of society even-thou they had no way to support themselves, no money, no land, no education, and for the most part no skills. I'm not condoning slavery. I'm saying in the North there was no thought given as what would happen to slaves once freed and terrible retribution white southerns would lay upon them for over a hundred years. I believe much of the racial problems in the South grew out of the injustices and punishment that were laid on Whites during Reconstruction.