Name: Iconic America | Stone Mountain: The Lost Cause - An Alternative Rationalization for the Civil War | Videos | Gan Jing World
Uploaded: 2023-12-10T16:17:56.765Z
Duration: 3 min 22 s
Description: “In order to believe that the Confederacy and these Confederates were noble, you have to have this myth of victimization of white Southerners that they are the ... | Videos | Gan Jing World

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“In order to believe that the Confederacy and these Confederates were noble, you have to have this myth of victimization of white Southerners that they are the real victims during the Civil War... And any effort to redeem them ought to be considered heroic.” 
– History Professor Hasan Jeffries explaining how attempts to reframe the causes of the Civil War gained traction in The South.

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