The races tended rather to drift apart.

The Negroes lived in fear of reenslavement while the whites believed that the war between the North and South would soon be renewed.

Some Negroes thinking likewise sought to go to the North to be among friends.

The blacks, of course, had come so to regard southern whites as their enemies as to render impossible a voluntary division in politics.
Among the worst of all faults of the whites was their unwillingness to labor and their tendency to do mischief.[2] As there were so many to live on the labor of the Negroes they were reduced to a state a little better than that of bondage.

The master class was generally unfair to the blacks.
No longer responsible for them as slaves, the planters endeavored after the war to get their labor for nothing.