The state of race relations in New Orleans in 1863 was not acceptable to one Southern newspaper

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A year after New Orleans was liberated by Union forces, a pro-Confederate Southern newspaper said that Blacks in that city were "as free...as in Boston," and it did not like that at all. This excerpt from an 1863 report on race relations in New Orleans offers a Confederate critique of a revolutionized society in which the Black is no longer owned by the white. You can see why so many dispossed slave owners in the city hated the Union commander Ben Butler!

 

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Therein lies the root of modern racism. The white folks of the south could not abide the concept of equality for the black folks. Their entire raison d'etre was based on the premise that, no matter how low born, a white man was always the superior of the black man. If a black man was equal to the white man, the entire southern social order was wrong - and slavery really was evil. And that the southern whites could not accept.
 
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