Category: White Supremacy Apologetics
After Longstreet’s Infamous Letter Endorsing Black Civil Rights, the Destruction of His Reputation Began
This morning, I posted Gen. James Longstreet’s “infamous letter” in which he called on Southern whites to accept that the Confederacy had lost the war…
The Lost Cause that Built Jim Crow: Henry Louis Gates in the NY Times
Professor Henry Louis Gates has an interesting article in today’s New York Times that examines the role of the Lost Cause and Redeemer narratives in…
The Scientific Defense of the Segregation of Southern Schools by Race
From the conservative Democratic newspaper the Yorkville Enquirer comes the opinion of science in favor of racial segregation and white superiority. This South Carolina newspaper…
Definition of Scalawag: A “Southron who…lives upon the sickening odors of negro love.”
“Scalawag” was a derogatory term for white Southerners who joined the Republican Party or otherwise aided in the Reconstruction project of the Federal government. Scalawags…
Black Troops Engage in Anti-Klan Operations in Tennesee in February 1868
The Klan did not simply run roughshod over the countryside in 1868. Army detachments, including black U.S. soldiers, were sent to combat the Klan. One…
The Real Enemy of Blacks Is Not Whites, It Is Poor White Southerners Says NY World January 1869
The New York World is often described as the newspaper that most reflected the views of the national leadership of the Democratic Party during the…
Poll: How Much Does the History of Slavery Impact Modern African Americans?
A new survey from the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago shows that while older white Americans still question the long-term effects…
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…