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…except of course, the Confederacy was all about racism and slavery from it's inception right up to today.
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You can say you 'studied the American Civil War', 

…but it's obvious you learned very little.
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The Confederacy was founded on the tenets of white supremacy,

Alexander Stevens, vice president of the Confederacy is quoted in documents:

" Our new government's foundations are laid, it's cornerstone 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."

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Throughout the war, the protection of slavery had been and remained the central core of the Confederate purpose.

Paul Escott - After Secession - (Baton Rouge - Louisiana University Press 1978- page 254
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The concern for 'states rights' did not motivate secession, in fact, as the war progressed the Confederacy began to deny states rights within their 'new nation'.

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Back to the books, Gerald.