re: On this day 160 years ago, the most savage battle of the Civil War was waged in Virginia

The reason many southern states seceded was due to the fact the rich land owners there who made up the governing as well as the plantation class were afraid they were going to lose their slaves. The north would not allow secession for any reason, and thus the war was fought. Your average southerner who did the fighting could care less about the human property at the time of rich land owners, but make no mistake that is exactly what caused the war. Well that and the fact the north refused to allow the Union to be split.

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because you were scared of the black man.

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Speaking of, how many Northern states didn't allow slavery, but free blacks were not allowed to own property or live there? Let's start with Lincoln's own, Illinois.

And while we're exploring this never discussed topic, tell me what State "Jim Crow laws" originated in?

What was the meaning of the phrase "being sold down the river" before the war?

If you could take a step back, you'd see that the reality that both the North and the South treated black people like shite.

We have been conditioned to believe through Hollywood over time that in every conflict there must be an absolute of some altruistic good guys and some evil bad guys who must be defeated.