Confederates' 'slave hunt' in North a military disgrace

[...]that chasm was being crossed by more than 70,000 Confederate soldiers -- the fighting arm of a government whose 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,"...

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Published inMcClatchy - Tribune Business News
Main Author Reeves, Frank
Format Newsletter
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Tribune Content Agency LLC 30.06.2013
Subjects
Abolition of slavery
African Americans
American Civil War
Armed forces
Emancipation of slaves
Historians
Military history
Military personnel
Underground Railroad
United States > US
Virginia
Pennsylvania
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Summary:[...]that chasm was being crossed by more than 70,000 Confederate soldiers -- the fighting arm of a government whose 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," as Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens told a cheering crowd in Savannah, Ga., in March 1861.