Category: White Supremacy Apologetics
Podcast: Why We Can’t Buy Disney’s Song of the South on DVD or Stream It on Disney+
Disney is beginning a new streaming service that will stream the entire Disney library, with one notorious exception. The one film that won’t be streamed…
John C. Calhoun Was Right, The Next Step Really Is Negro Equality January 1869
John C. Calhoun was nearly two decades in his grave in 1869, but white conservatives saw his prophecies that Northerners would not stop short of…
Freedom Under the Confiscation Act: What One Man’s Freedom Papers Tell Us About Black Resistance to Slavery
There was emancipation even before Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The March 1862 Confiscation Act allowed the Union Army to free slaves who had been…
British Newspaper The Guardian on Kevin Levin’s “Searching for Black Confederates”
Kevin Levin’s new book Searching for Black Confederates continues to garner interest in the press. The British paper The Guardan has an article on it today….
“We Must Escape Equality With the Negroes” The Fondest Hope for White Virginians in the New Year of 1869
The reason for opposing the Reconstruction of Virginia was the forced integration of the races, according to this article in the Petersburg Daily Express. The…
“The White Race of the South Will Constitute One Army” Attacking Reconstruction November 1868
No Southern newspaper did more to encourage secession in 1860 than the Charleston Mercury. After the war, it became a fiery opponent of Reconstruction and…
Freedom Under the Confiscation Act 1862: What the “Emancipation Paper” Said and How It Threatened Slavery
The March 1862 Confiscation Act allowed the Union Army to free slaves who had been employed in the service of the Confederacy. In this article…
Book Review: This War Ain’t Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal by Nina Silber
This War Ain’t Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal by Nina Silber published by Univerity of North Carolina Press (2018) 234 pages. Hardcover $32.95…
Resisting Carpet-Baggery And Mongrel Reconstruction in Virginia July 1868
In July 1868 Virginia was considering ratification of a new Constitution in line with the requirements imposed for its Reconstruction as a state and for…
Seeing Reconstruction in the Fall of 1868 Through the Eyes of The “Weekly Caucasian” Newspaper from Missouri
As many of you probably know, the Weekly Caucasian newspaper from Lexington, Missouri was a staunchly Democratic newspaper. Supporting the virtues of the Confederacy, applying…
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