The South

There are a number of things I like and dislike about the American South. Of these, the thing I dislike the most is the past of the Southern states, which includes the embarrassing and inhumane institution of slavery, secession, and instigation of the U.S. Civil War. As one historian argues, "Although slavery was legal in many northern states before the advent of the �free states' leading to the American Civil War, the huge, slave-run plantations were only found in the Deep South" (U.S., 2005, 2). While the institution of slavery has been outlawed in the U.S. for nearly a century and a half, the impact it had on race relations in the U.S. was enormous. Racism and prejudice continued to be associated with the South into well into the middle of the 20th centu

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