"The South was not of the mind to set free, emancipate,or equalize the black slave population (as a whole) before the war, much less during, and they were not too happy about doing it after. The deeds of the _ _ _ shows that.

What deeds of this group (_ _ _) would be considered acts of a Southern mindset(as a whole)? Being that 99% of my ancestors and all were from the South, I would like to know what they (as a whole) were doing in their spare time. Your statements would pretty much cover most of the United States by the acts of state governments.
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David Upton