Black and white cultures developed separately from each other, the separation created a stigma for either race toward the other, as a subject of the taboo. There was a constant tension, a relationship that bred whites to feel superior and blacks to feel inferior. It also heavily affected literature, music, and art for both races - leading to "White Man's Burden", "Uncle Tom's Cabin", as well as the explosion of new styles of music coming from the black newly freedmen/women of the south. It was a terrible and but extremely influential and creative period for black culture. :)
