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Starred Review on July 1, 2019 | Social Sciences
Levin, author of the blog Civil War Memory, incisively reveals the origins and various iterations of the "black Confederate" mythology that white supremacists, pro-Confederate memorialists, and states' righters have conjured up to insist that slavery was not the cause of the Civil War and that slaves loved their masters and "home" so much that they were willing to fight for them. He skillfully deconstructs the so-called evidence that such ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More