“Our new government['s]…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.”
Alexander Stephens, Vice Preident of the Confederacy in March 1861
And unsurprisingly they found ways to keep their slaves until it was properly outlawed in the 1940s, not because it was the right thing to do, but because the administration feared that the US treatment of black people would be used in propaganda against them.
I’d say “stay classy” but the US has never been classy in its short but bloody history.
“Our new government['s]…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.”
Alexander Stephens, Vice Preident of the Confederacy in March 1861
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone_Speech
And unsurprisingly they found ways to keep their slaves until it was properly outlawed in the 1940s, not because it was the right thing to do, but because the administration feared that the US treatment of black people would be used in propaganda against them.
I’d say “stay classy” but the US has never been classy in its short but bloody history.