“I honestly think slaves were treated better than the sharecroppers,” said Julia Barnes, a member of both the Daughters of the Confederacy and Daughters of the Union Soldiers. “If you bought and paid for a car, would you go out with a sledgehammer and hit it? Think about it, they paid money for slaves. It was an investment. Yes I’m sure there were some that mistreated slaves, but you have to look at it from an economic point of view.” Photo by Lindsey Feingold/CNS.
PHOTO GALLERY: The People of Anderson, South Carolina: Talk about the Confederacy, the Confederate Statue, Race Relations Long Ago and Today
