• 🐱TheCat@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Let’s play a game, look up the states articles of secession and see how many words you can make before you see a word starting with ‘slave’

    https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states

    By my count, Texas maybe goes the longest before mentioning it, but they all do.

    Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery–

    Fucking yikes Mississippi.

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      1 year ago

      It’s definitely a blow for the “the civil war wasn’t about slavery” crowd lol. Like I’m all for not judging the past by modern morals and acting like confederates weren’t as human as the rest of us… but pretending the civil war had nothing to do with slavery is simply a farce.

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        1 year ago

        I forgot they changed it quite frankly. The old one suits their current government more accurately.

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      1 year ago

      Also check out Alexander H. Stephen’s (Vice-President of the Confederate States) Cornerstone speech.

      “The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution.”

      “Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition.”

      It’s amazing the amount of mental gymnastics slavery apologists commit to considering the wealth of primary sources describing how the succession and war were directly related to slavery.