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After the Civil War, the South re-invented the Confederate cause to be about states' right and downplayed slavery and its inherent cruelties. When blacks were subjected under segregation in the New South, how did whites att argue about the legacy of slavery - as a sin, or as a blessing taken away?

by /u/Paulie_Gatto in /r/AskHistorians

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