freeing men.........caused "animosity?" too fucking bad.
Look, I'm not trying to pick a fight with you. But look at the situation logically.
The civil war freed the slaves, and pissed off the slave owners. In their view they had been robbed. They spent the next few decades trying to get it back. Criminal sentences to forced farm labor.
I'm not commenting on the right or wrong of it, but the is.
Had the civil war not happend, and slavery been given a free hand, it would have went past 1865. But it would have likely ended prior to 1900.
Race relations wouldn't not have devolved after because of forced emancipation.
Life was hard on all blacks for a long time.
Hard to tell if the slaves, or the free, impoverished no freedoms blacks from 1880 to 1950 had it harder.
I guess my point is that the civil war set race relations back over 100 years. Not civil rights. How well the two races got along.
We would all be better off today had there been no forced emancipation.
Blacks included.