Southern Women Hated Slavery & Their Husbands Relations With Black Slaves

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One of the best literary examples of this is "Mary Chestnuts Civil War" which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1982 as non-fiction. She stated it well- she hated slavery during the war and after it. She was a South Carolinian- the strongest pro confederate State. Almost all of these wives of plantation owners hated the peculiar instituition and although they supported the Civil War they hated slavery that they saw make their husbands and sons so lazy and immoral. Immoral in the fact that they raped and pillaged the black woman slaves. So many books and history of the era have confirmed that.
The North without slavery was actually more productive than the South in many area of agriculture and most in manufacturing business. Slavery made many of these Southern plantation owners, sons and their ilk lazy, non productive souls. It was wretched at the time and many Southern Women realized this but were caught in that trap.