Confederate Reckoning by Stephanie McCurry

When the grandiosity of Southerners national ambitions met the harsh. Join Opinion on Facebook and follow updates on /roomfordebate. Now, however, Stephanie McCurry tells a very different tale of the Confederate experience.

For better or worse we live in the world the Civil War - and Union victory - made. No wonder people think the Confederates won. to rise to the level of effective disfranchisement. We live in a world of inequality so profoundly corrosive of democratic processes that it seems lately in the U.S. It is easy to forget what difference that made. History turned in a new direction with Confederate defeat. but for those still enslaved in Cuba and Brazil and all those who in a different history would have continued to fill the slave ships and coffles that reproduced the institution of African slavery across time and space. Anything else would have been disastrous, not just for the roughly three million people of African descent in the C.S.A. But the Confederacy fought under the flag of slavery, staked its claim to world power on it, and went down with it.

Various forms of coerced labor, hierarchical race relations and political disfranchisement would be reinvented. The Confederate States of America was defeated, definitively defeated, politically and militarily and its path forward - the explicitly proslavery anti-democratic path for which Confederates seceded and fought - was cut off from history. It mattered, really mattered, that the South lost. Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South Hardcover Apby Stephanie McCurry (Author) 127 ratings See all formats and editions eTextbook 14.75 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 51.46 23 Used from 16.08 4 New from 51.45 2 Collectible from 30. As provocation it works fine as history not so much. It mattered, really mattered, that the South lost.īut this is a novelty idea, and it would be a mistake to make too much of it.

Confederate Reckoning by Stephanie McCurry