How did the south feel after the Civil War?

Question

How did the southerners feel about slavery after the Civil War? Did they feel that it was wrong or right? What else did they do about it?

Answer 1

They felt betrayed. They felt that their Constitutional rights had been taken from them. Some sued for their "right" to compensation for the "taking of their property" under the Constitution. They had just fought to retain slavery. They felt that they were right under the Constitution and under the Bible.

Answer 2

The KKK was started as an organization to help Confederate widows recover from the war and carry on their lives without husbands. It was only later on that it became a racist organization. General Nathan Bedford Forrest, who started it, actually tried to disband it once he felt it was getting out of hand. He even attempted to raise a local militia and stop it. Most people associate him with the racist aspects of the organization, though he had nothing to do with it. And the South wasn't fighting for slavery, it was fighting because the North was economically oppressing it and refusing it Constitutional Rights. Most people don't know that the Constitution that goverened the CSA outlawed the slave trade.

Answer 3

degraded , embittered, revengeful

Since the South fought for the slavery cause I cannot think of anything else that they believed they were right. We can see this the creation of KKK, poll tax, lynching mobs and segregational laws and besides any Reconsrtruction policy was fought tooth and nail in spite of the Northern militia being there until 1877.

Answer 4

bitter
angry

they started the KKK