so.. the south was sympathetic to Blacks

I think what you are forgetting is that the greatest consensus in the South as a whole was Not opposed to enslaving blacks.

There wasn't quite the united view of the majority in the north to perpetuate slavery, which is why the North ended slavery in the New England States much earlier than the South. And the North sure didn't try to succeed from the union either as soon as a president who was for anti-slavery expansion was elected.

The South also quickly instituted Jim Crow laws to keep the freed blacks in line, and to punish them when they stepped out of line, unlike the North. Which is why a lot of blacks in the North were surprised at how bad their kinsmen down south had it.

Emmett Till had no ideal how bad it was and that he was supposed to keep his head down when he stepped down South. And he was only one of many.

The South did all these things. That has been one of the problems nowadays, the South doesn't want to own up to its history and instead, films and movies are made which try to make the South appear noble

That doesn't mean every last Southerner was for Slavery. Nor does it mean every last Northerner was against Slavery. We can look back now and make absolute judgements, but people themselves are not like that. They are not some Collective Mind.

As for why the North chose not to secede from the Union...well, most of the Unions' power was up in the North anyways.

The North was opposed to slavery but did not necessarily *like* blacks.

The big political battles between the North and South leading up to the Civil War was over the expansion of slavery to the new states being created in the midwest and west. The North was firmly opposed to the expansion of slavery, partly out of a sense of morality, but also largely because they wanted to keep those new states for the *white* man and did not want the black population to spread to those states.

Abolitionists were quite unpopular throughout much of the North and partially blamed for causing the war itself. The North fought the war, first and foremost, to preserve the Union, not to end slavery. Ending slavery was a byproduct of the war and it was done to ensure that the South could never use slavery as a divisive point against the North.

The North was still very racist (especially by modern day standards) and the white population as a whole preferred to have nothing to do with blacks. The black population in the North was also quite small and most white Northerners had little exposure to blacks.

I suspect what the producers of the show are trying to show is that the reality was never strictly a case of South = bad and North = good when it came to treatment of African Americans. The South was bad but had a complicated relationship towards its black population, the North was still distant and suspicious and contemptuous of African Americans.

They can read, friend.

If they're following this thread, they saw you the first time.

Even if your copy/paste message wasn't utter garbage, posting it over and over again isn't opening any eyes. All it is really doing is making it so that you get ignored. No one cares how enlightened you think you are, especially if you are going to be a douche about it.

Not a bit.

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