What the American South had to offer the world, along with its embracing the end of slavery, was the warning that the political equality of blacks must be resisted at all costs. “When [the South] defended Slavery by her arms,” wrote one Southerner following the war, “she was single-handed, and encountered the antipathies of the whole world; now, when she asserts the ultimate supremacy of the white man, she has not lost her cause, but merely developed its higher significance, and in the new contest, she stands with a firm political alliance in the North … and with the sympathies of all generous
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