It happened in the best of families, too.
Thomas Jefferson
The Virginia Gazette,
Williamsburg, September 14, 1769.
After the War a Reign of Terror was unleashed upon the slaves by the DemocRATS in the South which resulted in the killing of thousands of blacks. It's aim was to break the political will of the newly freed slaves and allow the RATS to regain political and economic control of them. It got so bad that Congress had to pass anti-lynching legislation to protect the ex-slaves from their loving and kindly masters. Just because you refuse facts and prefer myths doesn't make them true.
That "respect and affection" by the Slavers was combined with a strict police control over the slaves complete with the hiring of scumbags to retrieve runaways. Chains, the Lash and the Whip were there to make sure that "affection" for Massa stayed strong. Slavery was a regime of Terror. Slaves lived in terror over what might come of them or their families and Masters lived in terror over what their property might do to them.
Uncles Tom's Cabin was fiction but sometimes fiction is truer than true because its art can lay bare the humanity behind events. Nor does it claim that all or even most slavers treated their property badly but that is what they were for far too many mere property. This was a retrograd socio-economic structure with no Good to outweigh the massive Evil which it supported.
There is nothing PC about the truth in fact the former prevents the latter from being stated.
Its really amazing how you Yankees purport to have the high moral ground yet when you get down to the bare bones of it, you were willing to usurp the law to achieve your ends. Not to mention the Yankees were the ones who were importing slaves up until the Slave Embargo was passed. No sir, your hands were just as bloody in the whole affair. So stop trying to play up the evil, white, racist Southerner image, its like the pot calling the kettle black.
If we choose to fly the CBF, who the hell are you to tell us we can't? Its called freedom of expression (1st Amendment). Or is it that that Amendment applies only to Yankees and not to Southerners? You are starting to sound like a screaming liberal - One set of rules for you Yankees, and another completely different set of rules for everyone else.
If you will note, another engagement of the WONA was finished on Nov 2nd with a victory supplied by the whole of the South. The Yankee liberal elitist Kerry was defeated.
It happened in the best of families, too.
Thomas Jefferson
The Virginia Gazette,
Williamsburg, September 14, 1769.