Shelby Foote & The American Civil War
Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy in 1861:
"Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its 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 moral condition. This, our new Government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth."
The Confederacy was founded on the principle of White supremacy.
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