I used to argue to you that the civil war was not really about slavery. But, after looking at it deeper I concede that I was mistaken. I've been reading about Reconstruction and the Jim Crow laws that were enacted during that time. It seems to me that because charity and love didn't prevail, hatred and force did. White men turned against black in the south, different and worse than during the war.
At least in the war men could actually fight and die heroically, but in the segregated south, the issue was a denial of the worth of another man's soul.
Very well put, dear lady.