HIST 393 Chapter Notes - Chapter reading: White Supremacy
22 Sep 2019
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Every school boy and school girl knew how they had fought against the odds to forge a new republic that was conceived in liberty. Both lincoln and jefferson davis appealed to the intense consciousness of parallels between 1776 and. Confederates professed to fight for liberty and independence from a tyrannical government. Unionists said they fought to preserve the nation conceived in liberty from dismemberment and destruction. The rhetoric of liberty permeated the letters of. Confederate volunteers in 1861 and grew even stronger as the war progressed. The opposites of independence and liberty were subjugation and slavery. White supremacy and the right of property in slaves were at the core of the ideology for which confederate soldiers fought. Emancipation proclamation for bringing the real issue into the open. Confederate prospects for victory appeared brightest during the months after the emancipation proclamation because this measure divided the northern people and intensified the morale crisis in union armies.
