1. As an addendum to @tanehisicoates's twitter discussion of investment of Confederate soldiers in slavery, worth recalling Calhoun.
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2. There's a passage from Calhoun, aptly quoted in TNC's reparations article, which really illuminates wider white investment in slavery.
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3. Calhoun: "With us the two great divisions of society are not the rich and poor, but white and black..."
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4. "..and all the former, the poor as well as the rich, belong to the upper class." Even poorest white has status from not being black slave
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5. Calhoun, under slavery all whites "have a position & pride of character of which neither poverty nor misfortune can deprive them."
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6. Calhoun's analysis explains recalcitrance of slavery & later white supremacy & why non-slave owners fought & died for slavery.
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7. Plantation slavery wasn't just economic system: out of economics grew an entire system of social relations, which many were invested in
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8. If we see the economics & social system as woven together, that sheds new light on claim neo-confederates honoring heritage, not slavery
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9. The "heritage" is slavery, a social system and way of life so vested in slavery that hundreds of thousands died to defend slavery.
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