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Cornerstone of the Confederacy - Alexander Stephens and the Speech that Defined the Lost Cause (Hardcover)
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Cornerstone of the Confederacy - Alexander Stephens and the Speech that Defined the Lost Cause (Hardcover)
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Born in early 1812 in Crawfordville, Georgia, Alexander Stephens
grew up in an antebellum South that would one day inform the themes
of his famous Cornerstone Speech. While Stephens made many speeches
throughout his lifetime, the Cornerstone Speech is the discourse
for which he is best remembered. Stephens delivered it on March 21,
1861-one month after his appointment as vice president of the
Confederacy-asserting that slavery and white supremacy comprised
the cornerstone of the Confederate States of America. Within a few
short weeks, more than two hundred newspapers worldwide had
reprinted Stephens's words. Following the war and the defeat of the
Confederacy, Stephens claimed that his assertions in the
Cornerstone Speech had been misrepresented, his meaning
misunderstood, as he sought to breathe new and different life into
an oration that may have otherwise been forgotten. His
intentionally ambiguous rhetoric throughout the postwar years
obscured his true antebellum position on slavery and its centrality
to the Confederate Nation and lent itself to early constructions of
Lost Cause mythology. In Cornerstone of the Confederacy, Keith
HEbert examines how Alexander Stephens originally constructed, and
then reinterpreted, his well-known Cornerstone Speech. HEbert
illustrates the complexity of Stephens's legacy across eight
chronological chapters, meticulously tracing how this speech, still
widely cited in the age of Black Lives Matter, reverberated in the
nation's consciousness during Reconstruction, through the early
twentieth century, and in debates about commemoration of the Civil
War that live on in the headlines today. Audiences both inside and
outside of academia will quickly discover that the book's
implications span far beyond the memorialization of Confederate
symbols, grappling with the animating ideas of the past and
discovering how these ideas continue to inform the present.
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