The main reason the South struggled to have former enslaved people being treated as equals was because they were used to them being enslaved for too long.
Why was equality hard to achieve in the South?
After the enslaved in the South became free, the Southern Whites couldn't bring themselves to view them as equals because they were once subordinated to them.
They then passed on these views to their children who were then convinced that African Americans were also beneath them as well.
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