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The Civil War may have ended on the battlefield, but the fight for equality never did
In 1865, the Confederacy was comprehensively defeated, its economy shattered, its leaders in exile or in jail. Yet in the years that followed, Lincoln’s vision of a genuinely united country never took root. Apart…
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Suri begins with an analysis of the January 6th attack on the US Capitol and effectively shows how the roots of that attack are deeply embedded in American history.
Drawing on archives and documents, he shows how many Confederate generals never accepted defeat in the Civil War and left for Mexico in 1865 with their enslaved people and soldiers. When they were pardoned by President Andrew Johnson, they returned to the former Confederate states and continued to enforce segregation. One of the Confederate generals even went on to found the University of Texas.
In Suri’s words, resistance to full integration…
In Civil War by Other Means, Jeremi Suri begins with the January 6, 2021 insurrection and shows how the roots of that riot go back to Confederate resistance to a more equal America that began immediately after the cessation of active hostilities.
In a sense, for many Southerners the Civil War never ended. Some left the US for Mexico, along with their slaves. Others maintained apartheid policies through control of the ballot box. Suri weaves a compelling story, based on a thorough examination of archives, that every American should know.
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