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The False Cause - Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory (Hardcover)
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The False Cause - Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory (Hardcover)
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The Lost Cause ideology that emerged after the Civil War and
flourished in the early twentieth century sought to recast a
struggle to perpetuate a slaveholding culture as a heroic defense
of the South. As Adam Domby reveals in his new book, 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 Confederacy as one of
history's greatest armies, 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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