It still amazes me that so few people believe that the confederacy was based entirely on slavery.

But it also amazes me that I only became aware of the so-called "cornerstone speech of the confederacy" in recent years, despite having spent most of my 62 years in the south:

"...given by Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens at the Athenaeum in Savannah, Georgia, on March 21, 1861, delivered extemporaneously a few weeks before the Civil War began with the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter.

"[I]ts 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 normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.

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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 normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth. This truth has been slow in the process of its development, like all other truths in the various departments of science."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone_Speech

I've no doubt the author is aware of this, and hopefully most readers as well. I regret posting something so hurtful and evil, but it's also an aspect of the horrors of the confederacy that cannot be ignored, and perhaps some readers will learn something, and will share it with others.

Very well written article. Thank you.