...attacked Fort Sumter, Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens expounded, "Our new government's foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon...superior race — is his natural and normal condition." UDC leaders doubtless hoped that if they left those principles vague, readers would infer something...

...supremacy. According to Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy: "Our new government's foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon...superior race — is his natural and normal condition." Confederate soldiers on their way to Antietam and Gettysburg, their two mam forays into Union states,...

...Southern Confederacy, declared Stephens shortly after assuming the new nation's vice presidency in 1861, "rests upon the great truth that the Negro is not...subordination to the superior race — is his natural or normal condition." Our master "idea," added William L. Yancey, is that every "white man is the equal...

...put it, the "cornerstone" of the Confederacy was "the great truth that the negro is not the equal of the white man; that slavery— subordination to the...superior race — is his natural and normal condition." The Charleston Mercury tried to echo the Founders when it declared of the drafting of the Confederate...

...Confederacy under Jefferson Davis, told his audience: "Our new government is founded upon... the idea... that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race^is his natural and normal condition,"33 Likewise, an Anglican minister declared that slaves "seem...

...assumption of the equality of the races . . . Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests upon...slavery — subordination to the superior race — is this natural and normal condition."40 Why would Stephens contend that the slave was in his natural...

...cornerstone of a nascent southern confederacy, a new nation founded, in Alexander Stephens's words, "upon the great truth that the negro is not equal...subordination to the superior race, is his natural and moral condition."59 Southerners employed polygenesis first and foremost as a scientific confirmation...

...questions relating to the proper status of the Negro in our form of civilization. Our new government's foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon...truth that the Negro is not equal to the white man; and that slavery and subordination to the superior race is his natural and moral condition." For a...

...questions relating to the proper status of the Negro in our form of civilization. Our new government's foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon...truth that the Negro is not equal to the white man; and that slavery and subordination to the superior race is his natural and moral condition." For a...

...this they were deceived, argued Stephens. The Confederacy, on the other hand, was based on the truth. "Its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man. . . . [0]ur new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical,...