People keep trying to rewrite history, but the documents are public.
The Confederacy officially consisted of 11 states that seceded from the Union:
• South Carolina
• Mississippi
• Florida
• Alabama
• Georgia
• Louisiana
• Texas
• Virginia
• Arkansas
• North Carolina
• Tennessee
The Confederacy also CLAIMED Kentucky and Missouri.
West Virginia broke away from Virginia during the Civil War because many people in the western counties opposed Virginia’s decision to secede from the Union in 1861.
And let’s be very clear: many of these states plainly stated WHY they were leaving the Union.
Mississippi said:
“Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery...”
Texas defended “the servitude of the African race.”
Georgia, South Carolina, and others complained about abolitionists, Black freedom, and threats to slavery.
This wasn’t hidden. It wasn’t subtle. It was written down in their own declarations. The Civil War never ended.
And many of these same states later:
• created Black Codes
• enforced Jim Crow
• fought school integration
• resisted the Voting Rights Act
• used terror, media, politics, and violence to suppress Black political power
History leaves patterns.
That’s why studying history matters — because some of the same states still struggle with the same racial tensions and political battles today.
Read the documents for yourself. Don’t let people sanitize history to make themselves comfortable.
https://t.co/YNFaOg0u4G
Leopold of Belgium ruled Congo as his private property for 23 years. He cut off the limbs of Congolese who did not meet their daily quota on the plantation. At the end of his rule, he had killed 15million Congolese people. But we are taught only about Hitler. 😭😭
Black codes at large were meant to humiliate, terrorize and control newly free slaves, uphold white supremacy and racial hierarchy and as I mentioned have an excuse to arrest, incarcerate, even assault and kill Black people
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