“It’s no harm for a hungry colored man to make a raid on a chicken coop or corn pile”, thus spoke carpetbagger Crockett in King William Country Virginia , June 1896, in the Walker-Wells campaign at a meeting opened with a prayer by Rev. Mr. Collins, northern missionary.
--Dixie After the War, Myrta Lockett Avary, page 316

A garrulous negress, was entertaining of the (northern) women with hair raising accounts of cruelties practiced upon her by whites when, as a slave, she cooked for them. The schoolmarm asked, “Why didn’t you black people poison all the whites and get your freedom that way? You’re the most patient people on earth or you would have done so.” A “mammy”, who overheard administered a stinging rebuke: “Dat would ha’ been a sin even ef our white folks wuz ez mean ez Sukey Ann ‘been tellin’. Mine wuz good to me. Sukey Ann jes been tellin’ you dem tales tuh see how she kin wuk you up.”
Dixie After the War, Myrta Lockett Avary, page 314

NO matter how outrageous an act committed by a black, many southerners felt the root cause lay in the North. “The poor negroes don’t do us any harm except when they're put up to it.”, rationalized one southern woman. “Even when they murdered that white man and quartered him, I believe pernicious teachings were responsible.”,
Spencer Bidwell King Jr., “A Wartime Journal of a Georgia Girl”, P. 344