many people did not want to investigate the tragedy befalling the freed slaves. Many northerners were little more sympathetic than their southern opponents when it came to the health of the freed slaves
I'm tired and have a terrible grammatical mental block here. That is affect rather than effect here, no?
That's the essential negative characteristics about problems that face humanity.I've always been of the mind that however sympathetic you might claim to be, human beings are normally quite indifferent toward problems that don't actually affect them. Hide behind fear of being targeted, either a legitimate concern nor not, but most people aren't going to actually get off their asses and change something that does not directly affect them.