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18 January
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What does The highest price of the Civil War was hate. mean?
What does The highest price of the Civil War was hate. mean?
Especially I have no idea about what „price“ means here.
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Highest price means expensive and, in this case, expensive means sacrifice or giving up of something that is valuable (e.g. love in the example).
For the war to happen, there needed to be 'hate' (emotion). The 'highest price' means it was a big sacrifice. The big sacrifice was the people had to hate others.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/expe...
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price (in this context) = consequence.
BEFORE the Civil War, blacks were seen as subhuman, similar to farm animals. They were often mistreated, but not necessarily 'hated'.
AFTER the Civil War, blacks were seen as threat to whites and were actively hated for this reason.
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Highest price means expensive and, in this case, expensive means sacrifice or giving up of something that is valuable (e.g. love in the example).
For the war to happen, there needed to be 'hate' (emotion). The 'highest price' means it was a big sacrifice. The big sacrifice was the people had to hate others.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/expe...
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This refers to a more abstract "price." Using "price" to mean something other than money like this is common in literature.
It is essentially saying that the "cost" associated with starting and completing the Civil War was the fact that people hated each other and had to endure that hate during and after the war.
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