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This 3 page essay explores the possibility that all racist hatred could be avoided if there had never been a Civil War in the U.S. and slaves were freed by choice under southern law. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Race relationships between blacks and whites has remained at a crossroads in the United States centuries beyond the end of the Civil War. Whenever any political event takes
place, or a movie like Avatar is released where aliens have a different color of skin, the question is raised whether there is a racist agenda attached - opening the
wound all over again. In short, America remains a "house divided." The division began with the war and became deep seated during the Antebellum years. If this had been avoided,
there may have been a very different outcome. Analysis Melvin Patrick Ely, in writing about his
ancestor Richard Randolph, Jr. says that it was common for plantation owners to free slaves under the laws of the South. Shuman (2005) writes that the reality is that one
in eight Blacks were free in the South before the war. Change was already on its way. This is a very different
picture of the south than most carry with them. It appears things were already evolving in the South to abolish slavery by choice. There were very few people left who
believed in the old slave system at that time. If the North had not brought the war to force the issue, every landowner would have eventually freed his slaves and
the animosity between Whites and Blacks would not exist. Because this was not the course of history, there remains between Whites and
Blacks a sustained "mutual resentment and contempt" that transcends all other boundaries (Bond, 300). This learned distrust started in the aftermath of the war, not during it or because of
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