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Posted On: 06/21/2020 8:43:01 AM
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The Confederacy Was an Antidemocratic, Centralized State
The actual Confederate States of America was a repressive state devoted to white supremacy.
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Stephanie McCurry
Professor of history at Columbia University
The Confederacy is not part of “our American heritage,” as President Donald Trump recently claimed, nor should it stand as a libertarian symbol of small government and resistance to federal tyranny. For the four years of its existence, until it was forced to surrender, the Confederate States of America was a pro-slavery nation at war against the United States. The C.S.A. was a big, centralized state, devoted to securing a society in which enslavement to white people was the permanent and inherited condition of all people of African descent.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/202...nk/613309/
The actual Confederate States of America was a repressive state devoted to white supremacy.
7:00 AM ET
Stephanie McCurry
Professor of history at Columbia University
The Confederacy is not part of “our American heritage,” as President Donald Trump recently claimed, nor should it stand as a libertarian symbol of small government and resistance to federal tyranny. For the four years of its existence, until it was forced to surrender, the Confederate States of America was a pro-slavery nation at war against the United States. The C.S.A. was a big, centralized state, devoted to securing a society in which enslavement to white people was the permanent and inherited condition of all people of African descent.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/202...nk/613309/
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