RE DK LEGACIES OF SLAVERY I

I find that I would want to emphasize quite other things as well, and go back to long before the Civil War, and work forward, to talk about these matters, if only very briefly here.

As an introduction, (call this chapter 1), RE DK post legacies of slavery, I would not characterize the issues broached as those merely of legacies of the institution of slavery alone. 

Further, given the long history of black migration to major cities all over the country after the Civil War, it seems a little narrow to paint a portrait of lingering Southern racism, when it has existed, in abundance, everywhere here, for a long time now. Crime has also decidedly not been primarily a Southern phenomenon, in the latter 20th Century, in spite of an element of truth re capital punishment and racism. 

The issue of crime, itself, quite apart from the racial aspect of capital punishment, requires separate detailed treatment; it dovetails into the larger problems I suggest have been at work, besides just racism. 

Some recent posts here touch on other related institutions, white indentured servitude, transportation and forced labor as a sentence for both white European convicts and prisoners of war, serfdom, class society, etc., both in Europe and in the New World. 

Smuggling, war, trade, religion, and piracy also play some part in this complex old story.

We are really talking, in very important ways, about the decline of the Old European Order, certainly after say 1763.  

You can try to kid yourself about this, say that can't be true, it's mainly about slavery. 

It was never mainly about just slavery. I will cite a passage from J G Randall, The Civil War And Reconstruction, "The Problem of Reconstruction": 

"Unless the executive and legislative branches could work together on reconstruction, efforts toward governmental action would be largely futile....This weakness, which would seem to be an inherent defect in the American system as distinguished from the parliamentary system of government, was a leading factor in that unfortunate deadlock and delay which ended ultimately in a series of congressional measures that proved a failure when applied to the South."

See next his next Chapter "Johnson and the Vindictives"... 

"If there was one thing that South Carolina feared more than bad Negro government, it was good Negro government." W. E. B. DuBois, Black Reconstruction In America

Another post colonial white black situation, still unfolding: Take a look at post apartheid South Africa, and its recent trends, to get a sense of how white southerners might have seen the world after the Civil War.