People don't think about this, but the aftermath of the Civil War was not only a disaster for the whites, slave owning or not, but also for the slaves, whose means of livelihood, as slaves, had also been ruined by the war, especially the tactics of Sherman. The freed negroes and their descendants lived out their lives amid burned out plantations and demolished towns and hamlets with little food and few resources. They did not get to move up North, where the victorious Northern white racists meanwhile gloated, carpet bagged and grifted in the South, and prospered. They were freed negroes stuck down South in a permanent wasteland without resources, investment, or hope.
The Civil War was certainly the Morgenthau Plan for the freed negroes.
The Civil War was certainly the Morgenthau Plan for the freed negroes.
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