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@ChocoLacaTaco @gerrigarrick @steph93065 @Acosta The Georgia tweet is part of a thread. Here are the sources; read them for yourself: battlefields.org/learn/primary-…
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@ChocoLacaTaco @gerrigarrick @steph93065 @Acosta And here's the Confederate VP's "Cornerstone Speech," delivered after secession but before shots were fired:battlefields.org/learn/primary-…
He starts with window dressing about commerce, but then he gets to his point:
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He starts with window dressing about commerce, but then he gets to his point:
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@ChocoLacaTaco @gerrigarrick @steph93065 @Acosta He directly calls slavery "the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution." He continues by explaining that the U.S. was fundamentally flawed because it was founded in Jefferson's principle to that "all men are created equal"... 
@ChocoLacaTaco @gerrigarrick @steph93065 @Acosta ... which he says is a mistake the Confederacy will not repeat: "Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; ...
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@ChocoLacaTaco @gerrigarrick @steph93065 @Acosta "... 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."
The Confederacy was founded upon racism + slavery.
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The Confederacy was founded upon racism + slavery.
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