The Lost Cause of the Confederacy, known simply as the Lost Cause...

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The Lost Cause of the Confederacy, known simply as the Lost Cause...

The Lost Cause of the Confederacy, known simply as the Lost Cause, is an American pseudohistorical[1][2] and historical negationist myth[3][4][5] that argues the cause of the Confederate States during the American Civil War was just, heroic, and not centered on slavery.[6][7] First articulated in 1866, it has continued to influence racism, gender roles, and religious attitudes in the Southern United States into the 21st century.[8][9]

Beyond forced unpaid labor and denial of freedom to leave the slaveholder, the treatment of slaves in the United States often included sexual abuse and rape, the denial of education, and punishments such as whippings. Enslaved families were often split and sold apart, usually estranged forever.[10] Lost Cause proponents ignore these realities, presenting slavery as a positive good and denying that alleviation of the conditions of slavery was the central cause of the American Civil War.[11] Instead, Lost Cause proponents frame the war as a defense of states' rights and of the Southern agrarian economy against supposed Northern aggression.[12][13][14] Lost Cause proponents attribute the Union victory to greater numbers and greater industrial wealth, while they portray the Confederate side of the conflict as being more righteous and having greater military skill.[11] Modern historians overwhelmingly disagree with these characterizations, noting that the central cause of the war was slavery.[15][16][17]

The Lost Cause reached a high level of popularity at the turn of the 20th century, when proponents memorialized Confederate veterans who were dying off. It reached a high level of popularity again during the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s in reaction to growing public support for racial equality. Through actions such as building prominent Confederate monuments and writing history textbooks, Lost Cause organizations (including the United Daughters of the Confederacy and Sons of Confederate Veterans) sought to ensure that Southern whites would know what they called the "true" narrative of the Civil War and would therefore continue to support white supremacist policies such as Jim Crow laws.[8][18] White supremacy is a central feature of the Lost Cause narrative.[18]

Why are uneducated low-IQ dysgenic hillbilly rednecks like this?

an American pseudohistorical[1][2] and historical negationist myth[3][4][5]

You lost.

Liberal-marxist projection. They labeled any historiography sympathetic to the Confederates as part of a "lost cause ideology" only to promote the actual lost cause ideology they created around the Reconstruction not being a massive failure, like Eric Foner has done.

But anon, I'm not the Confederate States of America (CSA), commonly referred to as the Confederate States (C.S.), the Confederacy, or the South, which was an unrecognized breakaway[1] republic in the Southern United States from 1861 to 1865.[8]

muh marxists

absolutely delusional

Cope. The Lost Cause of the Reconstruction was created by marxist and liberal pseudohistorians.

After the Civil War, white Southerners wanted to portray the South positively by erecting Confederate monuments to memorialize Confederate generals in support of the false narrative that Confederates had fought the war to preserve states' rights and not slavery. African Americans such as 19th-century civil rights activist Frederick Douglass opposed the erection of Confederate memorials.[42][43]

In 1870, Douglass wrote: "Monuments to the 'lost cause' will prove monuments of folly [...] in the memories of a wicked rebellion which they must necessarily perpetuate [...] It is a needless record of stupidity and wrong."[44]

On May 30, 1871, during the national celebration of Memorial Day at the tomb of the unknown soldier in Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, Douglass delivered a speech about slavery as the meaning and cause of the Civil War.[45] He said: "We are sometimes asked, in the name of patriotism, to forget the merits of this fearful struggle, and to remember, with equal admiration, those who struck at the nation's life, and those who struck to save it—those who fought for slavery, and those who fought for liberty and justice. I am no minister of malice. [...] I would not repel the repentant, but may [...] my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I forget the difference between the parties to that [...] bloody conflict."[46]

Fucking 1870

(((historians say)))

That's just the opinion of a rabid black anti-southerner from his own biased viewpoint. Lincoln and Grant repeatedly said (at least eight times) that the war was meant to preserve the Union and not to free the slaves. As to the merit of the statues every nation has the right to celebrate its history and military feats, even though the meaning attributed to such monuments might change over time. Southerners created their historical narrative just like every other people who have faced struggles for existence and sovereignty. This doesn't justify the demonization of their history or culture. Many other events in American history have also been romanticized without being subject to such vile hate from leftist historians such as Eric Foner, which is specially telling since many of Southern predictions regarding blacks actually turned out to be accurate in the long term.

A View of the Yankee People
by a Confederate officer captured at Gettysburg, writing to some friends
on another subject when his mind turned to the Yankees.
“They believed their manners and customs more enlightened, their intelligence and culture immeasurably superior. Brim-full of hypocritical cant and puritan ideas, they preach, pray and whine. The most parsimonious of wretches, they extol charity; the most inveterate blasphemers, they are the readiest exporters; the worst of dastards, they are the most shameless boasters; the most selfish of man, they are the most blatant philanthropists; the blackest-hearted hypocrites, they are religious fanatics. They are agitators and schemers, braggarts and deceivers, swindlers and extortioners, and yet pretend to Godliness, truth, purity and humanity. The shibboleth of their faith is, “The union must and shall be preserved”, and they hold on to this with all the obstinacy peculiar to their nature. They say that we are a benighted people, and are trying to pull down that which God himself built up.

“Many of these bigots express great astonishment at finding the majority of our men could read and write; they have actually been educated to regard the Southern people as grossly illiterate, and little better than savages. The whole nation lives, breathes and prospers in delusions; and their chiefs control the spring of the social and political machine with masterly hands.
“I could but conclude that the Northern people were bent upon the destruction of the South. All appeared to deprecate the war, but were unwilling to listen to a separation of the old union. They justified the acts of usurpation on the part of their government, and seem submissive to the tyranny of its acts on the plea of military necessity; they say that the union is better than the Constitution, and bow their necks to the yoke in the hope of success against us. A great many, I believe, act from honest and conscientious principles; many from fear and favor; but the large majority entertained a deep-seated hatred, envy and jealousy towards the Southern people and their institutions. They know (yet they pretend not to believe it) that Southern men and women are their superiors in everything relating to bravery, honesty, virtue and refinement, and they have become more convinced of this since the present war; consequently, their worst passions have become aroused, and they give way to frenzy and fanaticism. We must not deceive ourselves; they are bent upon our destruction, and differ mainly in the means of accomplishing this end.
“However, much as sections and parties that hate each other, yet, as a whole, they hate us more. They are so entirely incongruous to our people that they and their descendants will ever be our natural enemies.”

Sad our OP is a dick sucking nigger pedophile who eats dead babies with Jim Comey and George Soros and takes it up the ass from goats. Disgusting. H. Dark Maga

Republicans outright say don't go into social sciences

That's for queers, you should learn a trade instead

WHAT IN TARNATION, ALL THESE SOCIAL SCIENTISTS ARE DEMONRATS

Hindsight is always 20/20. It was a lost cause if they knew the union would go total war and just start conscripting guys straight off of boats. The north pulled off a couple upsets that really turned morale for their soldiers too.

"there is not one word in the Constitution of the Confederacy that gives color to any such idea as slavery being the corner-stone of the Government; on the contrary, Section IX, Article I. clearly repudiates it."
-Samuel Morse (NY, 3/2/1863)

Under cover of “liberty of speech,” “liberty of the press,” and “habeas corpus,” they hoped to keep on foot amongst us a most efficient corps of spies, informers, suppliers, and aiders and abettors of their cause in a thousand ways.
-Lincoln 6/12/1863

Vote Lincoln for NO expansion of slavery to the territories

Vote Breckinridge for expansion of slavery to the territories

Vote Douglas for some expansion of slavery to the territories

Vote Bell if you vocally don't give a shit about the slavery

It seems like such a niche concern, why did the American voter care so much about the slavery issue, aren't Indian attacks and resettlement, taxes or sudden catholic migration-waves bigger concerns?

Liberals and neo-marxists have established a de facto monopoly on social sciences in the US. Although not due attention is given to it this is one of the chief causes of America's overall decline. The vomit they produce in universities is transmitted to the larger public through television and other media. There wouldn't be BLM without the likes of Franz Boas and Eric Foner.

The Confederate Constitution contains several provisions that contradict the idea that it did not support slavery. Article I, Section 9(4) prohibited laws that would deny or impair the right of property in enslaved people. Article IV, Section 3(3) mandated the recognition and protection of slavery in new territories. Additionally, Article IV, Section 2(1) protected the rights of slave owners to travel and reside in any Confederate state with their enslaved individuals.

Statements from Confederate leaders also contradict the claim. Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens explicitly stated in his Cornerstone Speech that the Confederacy's foundation rested on the belief in the inequality of races and the natural condition of slavery for Black people.

Therefore, the assertion that the Confederate Constitution does not support the idea of slavery being the cornerstone of the government is incorrect. The text of the constitution and the words of its leaders demonstrate the central role of slavery in the Confederacy.

Brand new Nazi flag

Like, clearly unfolded about 5 minutes before photo where it is centered

Not a literal false flag

Social scientists put out shoddy, biased, incorrect work

Kill the reputation of their own field of expertise

Get mad that nobody respects them or cares about their field anymore

you live in an echo chamber

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mfw when the south loses and the niggers are ruining everything around me

noting that the central cause of the war was slavery

The Civil War was 1861-1865
In 1863, part of Virginia split off, formed West Virginia and joined the northern union AS A SLAVE STATE.
So in a war over slavery, where non slave owners were killing slave owners simply because they owned slaves, the non slave owners admitted slave owners into their ranks....to kill slave owners.

Sounds legit

I read a slave narrative where the former slave told the interviewer that after the war he joined the klan because he hated niggers. History is a bit more complicated than whatever bullshit you think you know.

See these kikes? These kikes are both in Hell. They're back with their fellow demons in Hell.

And one day, you're going to have to join them.

Did you just spam wiki on Anon Babble? Nigger that shit is so biased and bullshit they wouldn't even accept this as a source in my literal lost cause and reconstruction history course at a liberal university.

you sound like a normal, healthy, mentally well individual with friends and a romantic life

It's academic ideologues who actually live in an echo chamber. They long for being as dettached as possible from diverging views as to protect their fanatical worldviews and emotional security, even from academics from foreign countries.

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How I feel as a Southerner in this faggot yankee country

Le heckin raicists should form their own country

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT LIKE THAT! WE GONNA MURDER YOU NOW!

Gay?

Hey troon, still at it
Keep seething over the based south

The Confederates were based.

The Emancipation Proclamation was very specific. It only freed slaves "In States Under Rebel Control".
At that time, there were 6 slaves states that had either rejoined the union, were under union control, or had never left the union.
When the war ended NORTHERNERS STILL HAD SLAVES..

KEK
No, superior

I have God and the holy mission to rid the world of kikes like you. What more do I need?

The American Civil War began on April 12, 1861, when Confederate forces opened fire on the Union-held Fort Sumter.

faggot ran when confronted with thisLMAO WEREN'T YOU LITERALLY BITCHING IN A THREAD LAST NIGHT ABOUT AN ANON RUNNING FROM A THREAD?

Are you okay? That line clearly repudiates slavery.

None of this shit even matters anymore. White southerners already cucked out and allowed the destruction of their monuments, the elimination of monument row in the old Confederate capital of Richmond, they changed Mississippi's flag because niggerball coaches were complaining, and many parts of the south are being invaded by Latinxes and other foreigners. It's ogre. All that 'southern pride' tough-talking bullshit couldn't even prevent the Lee statue from being melted down.

If you want to laugh look up what happened when southern whites fought against primarily Germans out of Michigan and Wisconsin. The up north yankees dogwalked them. Every slave owner, confederate officer/politician should have been hanged or made to fight to the death for sport.

Allah isn't god
Neither is Yahweh

Are you just citing wikipedia?

Aint nobody got time for that

The place in the world where you will see the most confederate flags publicly shown is dalmatia coast croatia

You’ll be surprised at the rising “confederate-ness” here in Texas. I went to a SCV event in April. Big turnout and the courthouse out the CSA flag on its flagpole all month. San Antonio, despite being majority spic, has a very big SCV group there that regularly gives out scholarships to people.

I'll one day encourage your daughters to think otherwise, Inshallah.

Hell yeah! I need to visit

Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, and fucking New Jersey were all slave states which did not leave the union. Tennessee and parts of Louisiana were repatriated without losing their slaveholds. West Virginia was admitted into the Union during the war as a slave state. Nebraska, Utah, and the parts of Oklahoma which sided with the Union were slave territories through the war. Until the compensated emancipation proclamation halfway through the war, DC was still operating as a major slave trading hub.

muh emancipation proclamation

Was a military move which freed about 50,000 slaves being held by the Union army as war property. The proclamation freed up those men, supplies, and logistics holding that war property in slave camps.

The central conflict leading to war was a dispute over whether slavery should be permitted to expand into the western territories, leading to more slave states, or be prohibited from doing so, which many believed would place slavery on a course of ultimate extinction.[14]

Fort Sumter

Isn't that located in Confederate territory? The yankees had no business there.

February 9, 1861, US President Buchanan’s original armistice agreement to evacuate federal troops from Forts Pickens FL and Sumter SC expires, he has informed former Pres. Tyler’s Peace Commission that he now has no intention of evacuating the remaining troops from the 7 newly confederated states.(Act of War)
The confederate commissioners in Montgomery Alabama have drafted a provisional constitution based on the US constitution, and elected Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens as “provisional” President and Vice President of the Confederate States of America.
Rejoicing in New Orleans.
New Orleans, Feb. 9.--The President of the Louisiana State Convention announced to-day that information by telegraphic dispatch had been received of the election of Jefferson Davis for President, and Alexander H. Stephens for Vice President of the Provisional Government of the Southern Confederacy. Tremendous and prolonged applause greeted the announcement from the galleries and the lobbies. Resolutions were immediately offered cordially approving the action of the Montgomery Convention, and passed unanimously, and a resolution to fire a salute in honor of the Southern President and Vice President elect unanimously passed the Convention. One hundred guns were fired, and great enthusiasm and rejoicing prevails.

despite being majority spic, has a very big SCV group there

are these mutually exclusive
if half the nazis are spics then surely half the confederates can be too

You'll also seem them in Australia on the back of the Rebels Motorcycle Club

hajduk split soccer hooligans. you should def come

Fair point

Noice!