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Originally Posted by DanaC
Well, if we're going to be entirely honest about it, the North was barely less prejudiced than the South during the Antebellum era, through reconstruction and on into Jim Crow. The only real difference was between de facto segregation and de jure segregation.
I was comparing the unfairness of the justice system of that racist era with the system's attitudes to other groups now.
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If you honestly believe that there is no point in having this conversation.
The politicizing of freeing the slaves became a war issue, slavery in homes was common in the North. Just as much so as in the South and prejudice against blacks was as common.
In fact blacks were treated worse by the Northern army than they were by the south and free Southern prisoners of war were shot on sight by the North but Northern prisoners of war were treated the same as whites by the South.
The freeing of the slaves was a last ditch effort by the North and at the time few truly wanted blacks to be citizens.
It's funny, every time I bring-up the South, you go farther back in history, like it's relevant. It is not.