The Turner massacre was universally depicted as the work of savages and brutes, not of men.
Vigilance was tightened, and new laws controlling the slaves were passed throughout the South.

Both the violence of the slaves and the verbal abuse of the abolitionists only served to strengthen the South in its defense of the peculiar institution.

Slaves who revolted were depicted as beasts who could not be freed because they would endanger society.
Submissive slaves were pictured as children in need of paternal protection from the evils of a complex, modern world.

They were never seen as men whose rights and liberties had been proclaimed in the Declaration of Independence.
Growing Racism As Afro-American freedmen sought to claim their rights as men and citizens, they were confronted with constant resistance from whites who were unwilling to accept them.

Actually, pressure from the mass of Northern white workers had contributed to abolition of slavery in those states.