Few of the slave owners were the ones that fought and died. Those were poor whites almost exclusively.
Plenty of Confederate Junior officers came from the planter class and got killed in the fighting.
The Southern slaver aristocracy should have been executed.
At a minimum, lands stripped and distributed to the people, certainly. Although, there would have been a certain special irony if Lee had been hung at Charles Town, Virginia on Dec 2, 1865.
Plenty of Confederate Junior officers came from the planter class and got killed in the fighting.
At a minimum, lands stripped and distributed to the people, certainly. Although, there would have been a certain special irony if Lee had been hung at Charles Town, Virginia on Dec 2, 1865.