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" Our new Government is founded upon exactly the opposite ideas; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone 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... "
Life of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States ... - Page 105
by Frank Crosby - 1865 - 476 pages
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

James W. Loewen - Education - 2007 - 464 pages
...supremacy. According to Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy: "Our new government's foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon...superior race — is his natural and normal condition." Confederate soldiers on their way to Antietam and Gettysburg, their two mam forays into Union states,...
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Dixie Betrayed: How the South Really Lost the Civil War

David J. Eicher - History - 2007 - 376 pages
...equality of the races, Stephens proclaimed, "Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon...to the superior race — is his natural and normal condition."7 Davis was understandably upset at Stephens's public remarks — not the remarks, but their...
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The Road to Disunion, Volume II : Secessionists Triumphant Volume II ...

William W. Freehling Singletary Professor of the Humanities University of Kentucky - History - 2007 - 625 pages
...Southern Confederacy, declared Stephens shortly after assuming the new nation's vice presidency in 1861, "rests upon the great truth that the Negro is not...subordination to the superior race — is his natural or normal condition." Our master "idea," added William L. Yancey, is that every "white man is the equal...
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In the Name of Education

Jonas E. Alexis - Religion - 2007 - 413 pages
...Confederacy under Jefferson Davis, told his audience: "Our new government is founded upon... the idea... that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race^is his natural and normal condition,"33 Likewise, an Anglican minister declared that slaves "seem...
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America's Three Regimes : A New Political History: A New Political History

Morton Keller Professor of History Brandeis University - History - 2007 - 350 pages
...put it, the "cornerstone" of the Confederacy was "the great truth that the negro is not the equal of the white man; that slavery— subordination to the...superior race — is his natural and normal condition." The Charleston Mercury tried to echo the Founders when it declared of the drafting of the Confederate...
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All Honor to Jefferson?: The Virginia Slavery Debates and the Positive Good ...

Erik S. Root - Biography & Autobiography - 2008 - 268 pages
...assumption of the equality of the races . . . Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests upon...slavery — subordination to the superior race — is this natural and normal condition."40 Why would Stephens contend that the slave was in his natural...
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Normans and Saxons: Southern Race Mythology and the Intellectual History of ...

Ritchie Devon Watson - History - 2008 - 297 pages
...cornerstone of a nascent southern confederacy, a new nation founded, in Alexander Stephens's words, "upon the great truth that the negro is not equal...subordination to the superior race, is his natural and moral condition."59 Southerners employed polygenesis first and foremost as a scientific confirmation...
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Selma: A Novel of the Civil War

Val L. McGee - Fiction - 2008 - 794 pages
...questions relating to the proper status of the Negro in our form of civilization. Our new government's foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon...truth that the Negro is not equal to the white man; and that slavery and subordination to the superior race is his natural and moral condition." For a...
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Selma: A Novel of the Civil War

Val L. McGee - Fiction - 2008 - 794 pages
...questions relating to the proper status of the Negro in our form of civilization. Our new government's foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon...truth that the Negro is not equal to the white man; and that slavery and subordination to the superior race is his natural and moral condition." For a...
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Enlightened Republicanism: A Study of Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia

David Tucker - Virginia - 2008 - 182 pages
...this they were deceived, argued Stephens. The Confederacy, on the other hand, was based on the truth. "Its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man. . . . [0]ur new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical,...
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