You had Northeern white racists attacking and killing Southern white racists for owning negroes.
The Northern white racists did not want the negroes around in the South, and certainly did not want them migrating into the North.
That was, after all, the whole purpose of the war.
Conflict between the states flared up again in 465 BC, when a helot revolt broke out in Sparta. The Spartans summoned forces from all of their allies, including Athens, to help them suppress the revolt. Athens sent out a sizable contingent (4,000 hoplites), but upon its arrival, this force was dismissed by the Spartans, while those of all the other allies were permitted to remain.
According to Thucydides, the Spartans acted in this way out of fear that the Athenians would switch sides and support the helots;
the offended Athenians repudiated their alliance with Sparta.[12] When the rebellious helots were finally forced to surrender and permitted to evacuate the state, the Athenians settled them at the strategic city of Naupaktos on the Gulf of Corinth
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