This is an index to my Confederate "Heritage" Month posts from April. It was inspired by Edward Sebesta's page on the same subject. I reference his daily entries in each post. But I tried to add some comment of my own relating to each one. On several of the dates, I used either additional material to supplement his information or material on a different angle on the topic.
Sebesta's page is aimed at debunking the neo-Confederate nonsense that romanticizes the Confederacy and promotes white-supremacist ideas and attitudes in the present. He does so by focusing on the real history of the Civil War and of Confederate idolatry and by bringing a democratic and patriotic perspective to the subject.
(At the beginning of April, I was referring to Sebesta's page as the Okaloosa NAACP page on the topic; apparently Sebesta prepared the material for them and early in April moved the page to his own site. I've linked to the individual days' entries. But the last time I tested them, they all take you to the top of the page. Although you can use the index on the left column of Sebesta's page to go immediately to the entry for a particular date.)
The following entries reference the topic of the daily entries in Old Hickory's Weblog.
April 1 - Robert E. Lee on slavery
April 2 - "Cornerstone Speech" by Alexander Stephens, the Vice President of the Confederacy
April 3 - Robert E. Lee on freed blacks
April 4 - More about Robert E. Lee on the freed slaves
April 5 - Quote from Alan Nolan's "The Anatomy of the [Lost Cause] Myth"
April 6 - Robert E. Lee on African-Americans postwar. Includes quote from Alan Nolan's Lee Reconsidered.
April 7 - Jefferson Davis' defense of slavery in 1850.
April 8 - Jefferson Davis approving of postwar racism by a Southern official
April 9 - The Dred Scott decision of 1857, including a speech by Abraham Lincoln criticizing it citing Andrew Jackson
April 10 - Jefferson Davis to the Confederate Congress linking "states rights" and the defense of slavery, and a quotation from Bertram Wyatt-Brown's The Shaping of Southern Culture: Honor, Grace and War, 1760s-1880s on slavery as the cause of the Civil War
April 11 - The theology of slavery
April 12 - The Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV)
April 13 - Slave narratives available online
April 14 - The Lost Cause and the politics of playing the victim
April 15 - Quote from George Fitzhugh's proslavery Sociology of the South, or, The Failure of a Free Society (1857)
April 16 - Confederate "heritage" advocates in 1905 on white supremacy
April 17 - Confederate "heritage" advocates in 1907 on white supremacy
April 18 - Atlanta race riot of 1906
April 19 - Jefferson Davis endorsing John Calhoun for President 1844
April 20 - Jefferson Davis eulogizing Andrew Jackson 1845
April 21 - Jefferson Davis, slavery and the influence of John Calhoun
April 22 - Confederate idolatry and support for segregation 1957
April 23 - Crackpot thinking and polemics among neo-Confederates
April 24 - Confederate idolatry and support for segregation 1958
April 25 - Confederate idolatry and support for segregation 1959
April 26 - Confederate idolatry and support for segregation 1958 using some particularly maudlin rhetoric
April 27 - Quotation from Lloyd Hunter's "The Immortal Confederacy" on the merger of Confederate idolatry with segregationist politics
April 28 - Michael Andrew Grissom's Can the South Survive?, a neo-Confederate polemic
April 29 - Michael Andrew Grissom's Southern by the Grace of God, another neo-Confederate favorite
April 30 - Defenses of Southern slavery, with quote from George Fitzhugh's proslavery Cannibals All! Or, Slaves Without Masters (1857)
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