Apr 15, 2010

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Ethnic Hegemonies in American History, Part 2

Civil War and EmpireSince colonial times Southerners had used imported African slave labor. Consequently they lived symbiotically with the most genetically different of Earth’s peoples.[23] Slavery continued after the Revolutionary War and became increasingly important as commercial cotton cultivation spread westward through the Gulf Coastal region at the start of Scots-Irish...

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May 23, 2009

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Race and the South, Part III:
Refuting the Neo-Confederates

Editor’s Note: This is the third and final online installment of this essay, which originally appeared in Samuel Francis, ed., Race and the American Prospect: Essays on the Racial Realities of Our Nation and Our Time (The Occidental Press, 2006), available for purchase here. Read part I here. Read part II here.What do the neo-Confederates cite as evidence for their case?Their...

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May 20, 2009

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Race and the South, Part II:
The Civil War Really was about Slavery

Editor’s Note: This essay, which will appear online in three parts, is from Samuel Francis, ed., Race and the American Prospect: Essays on the Racial Realities of Our Nation and Our Time (The Occidental Press, 2006), available for purchase here. Read part I here.Contrary to the contentions of the neo-Confederates, race, i.e. slavery, was the primary cause of both secession...

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May 18, 2009

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Race and the South, Part I:
The Real Case against Slavery

Editor’s Note: This essay, which will appear online in three parts, is from Samuel Francis, ed., Race and the American Prospect: Essays on the Racial Realities of Our Nation and Our Time (The Occidental Press, 2006), available for purchase here.“Across our path stands the South with a flaming sword”—W. E. B. DuboisSeven weeks after the election of 1856, in which the...

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