keri leigh merritt, phdAs a historian of Reconstruction I can tell you what happens when you don’t punish or prosecute the LEADERS of the insurrection…
Michael Seraphim@kerileighmerritt when someone as high in the Confederacy as Alexander Stephens serves in Congress in the 1870s, it's obvious that no meaningful punishment of the leadership happened.
Mr. Completely@kerileighmerritt I've been thinking about this and reading about it for years, decades - I grew up in the south as a kid of leftist radical activists, labor and civil rights activists, so I have a certain view of this - time and again we've failed to seal the deal, starting at the devil's bargain with the South in the founding of the nation... I would love to hear more from you on this so I will follow along. I was literally thinking about this on my dog walk 20 minutes ago, it's always there
Dr. Cynthia Alease Smith💡@kerileighmerritt I just bought Masterless Men. Looking forward to reading it.
@kerileighmerritt I have written a bit discussing the white poor during the Enslavement and the lengths the wealthy gentry took to convince them they were "the same" when they knew they were lying. They even attempted to codify the "equal" status of the white poor in the Confederate Constitution even though they knew it would be "conditional."
Interesting how some average white people think their "heritage" was as good as the Gentry who controlled and subjugated them.