Member Review War for What? by Francis W. Springer

However, I admit I haven't the read the book so he may have been going for something a bit different when he talked about loyalty to the South. Like them considering the South as home, no matter the issues.

That seems to be exactly how he treats it. Here are a few quotes where he discusses how he sees the attitude of the black population in the South:

What was the attitude of Southern Negroes? Were they united in purpose, and what was their purpose? Most comments in print assume that all of them were waiting with hands uplifted in piteous plea for the Yankees who had sold them into their horrible conditions to come back and take them away from customers who had bought them. It will be no news to those who have studied the facts that this is nonsense, and certainly no news to anyone that all Negroes did not think, act and look alike. They were individuals, had their own class system and their lives were affected by many influences, especially by the attitudes of people white and black around them. - p 87​
All Southern Negroes were not hoeing tobacco or picking cotton. Some were overseers, many were skilled craftsmen. Many were personal servants in families where a division of sympathies existed and would hear both sides of current political issues. Some were city dwellers, some free farmers, some (perhaps as many as 3,000 or more) were slaveholders. It is only natural that their attitudes would vary, but the South was the only home that most Negroes knew... - p 88​
 
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