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The False Cause - Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory (Paperback)
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The False Cause - Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory (Paperback)
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The Lost Cause ideology that emerged after the Civil War and
flourished in the early twentieth century in essence sought to
recast a struggle to perpetuate slavery as a heroic defense of the
South. As Adam Domby reveals here, this was not only an insidious
goal; it was founded on falsehoods. The False Cause focuses on
North Carolina to examine the role of lies and exaggeration in the
creation of the Lost Cause narrative. In the process the book shows
how these lies have long obscured the past and been used to
buttress white supremacy in ways that resonate to this day. Domby
explores how fabricated narratives about the war's cause,
Reconstruction, and slavery-as expounded at monument dedications
and political rallies-were crucial to Jim Crow. He questions the
persistent myth of the Confederate army as one of history's
greatest, revealing a convenient disregard of deserters, dissent,
and Unionism, and exposes how pension fraud facilitated a myth of
unwavering support of the Confederacy among nearly all white
Southerners. Domby shows how the dubious concept of "black
Confederates" was spun from a small number of elderly and indigent
African American North Carolinians who got pensions by presenting
themselves as "loyal slaves." The book concludes with a penetrating
examination of how the Lost Cause narrative and the lies on which
it is based continue to haunt the country today and still work to
maintain racial inequality.
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