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What did southers fear would happen if black were given rights equal to those of white

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Most Southerners were slave-owners at the time. They feared that if blacks had the same rights as those of white then they would lose the entirety of their business. We see that in the Reconstruction Period where the South is very poor

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the black people would no longer serve as slaves

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