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“American society’s use of Civil War to rhetorically veil the slaveholders’ rebellion has consequences. After the redemption of the Confederacy, ex-Confederates and their heirs helped create a regime of anti-Black violence by instituting a legal architecture of disenfranchisement and lynching. That is what makes confronting how we refer to the Civil War a civic imperative.” #uspoli #slavery #jan6 https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/opinion/civil-war-slaveholders-rebellion-slavery.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=hanspetermeyer%2Fmagazine%2FREV.HANS+RECOMMENDS