As the war criminal Gen. Wm T. Sherman was rampaging through Georgia, his wife was back home in Ohio, looking after THE FAMILY SLAVES.
In the first place William Sherman never owned a slave in his life. Not one. Not ever. You would have known that if you had bothered to do any research. I've seen that bogus quote about 'good help is hard to find' attributed to Grant but nobody can ever point to a source. If you say that Sherman said it then it is further proof that nobody said it.
In fact, Gen. Sherman kept his slaves until he was forced to free them by Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1867.
The 13th Amendment to the Constitution outlawing slavery took effect in December 1865 not in 1867. You would know that if you ever bothered to read the Constitution.
In 1860, almost 50% of all blacks in the South were free already
According to the census of 1860 there were 132,405 free black persons of all ages in the southern states. The census says that there were 3,521,110 slaves in the southern states. Now I realize that southern schools tend towards the bottom of national rankings but even you should be able to realize that 132,405 is nowhere near 50% of all Black people in the south. So where did you come up with that insane figure? I assume that it was the same place you got your statistics on Black Slave ownership. There is no doubt that some Blacks were slave owners but your figure is assinine.
The Black Codes which returned Blacks to a state of near slavery were passed in all the southern states in 1865 and 1866. The Reconstruction that you blame them on didn't begin until 1867. The Jim Crowe laws that you blame on the north were passed after reconstruction ended. The 'friendly relations that White Southrons had enjoyed with Black Southrons' didn't exist anywhere other than in your fertile imagination.
You advise me to learn the truth? From your post it is plain that you wouldn't know the truth if it bit you on your southron butt.