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Why the Confederacy Was Nothing to Celebrate (Video) [1]

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Date: 2023-11-29  

I live in the Shenandoah Valley, which was called “the breadbasket of the Confederacy.” The people of this rural area have a strong allegiance to the Confederacy, having been taught by their culture that it was a fine thing. It wasn’t. The Confederacy was formed by the Slave Power, a system in which power and wealth were gained through making human beings into a kind of livestock, and justified by ideas of White Supremacy. The Confederacy launched the nation into a terrible Civil War by an act of secession — backed up by military force — which was in itself a crime and violation of the national pact of the Constitution.

These ideas, and more (such as parallels between the dark force that drove us to Civil War in the 19th century, and the dark forces now threatening American democracy in the 21st), are discussed in this video, titled “Why The Confederacy Was Nothing to Celebrate.”

[People are reporting having problems with the link in the form I presented it earlier. I’m looking into that. In the meanwhile, I’ll see if it works better in this form:

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It seems that this does work.]

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