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Post by Cinemachinery on Aug 25, 2017 17:58:35 GMT
When people insist it "wasn't about slavery" I recommend reading the actual declarations of secession. Each one describes slavery as a clear objective. And/or the Cornerstone Speech, or any real discussion of the day. The rewrites started with the largely successful attempts to salvage white supremacy in the South after it was subdued militarily.
The new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions—African slavery as it exists among us—the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. Which brings us right back around the the timing of the statues popping up honoring confederate leaders, to the exclusion of Mahone, a curiously "pro-equality" former commander. |
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