No aspect of the Confederacy can be understood without acknowledging the importance it placed on the institution of slavery. Confederate civilians were reminded that their nation was defending a ‘peculiar institution’ at every turn. Enslaved men worked manufacturing war materiel in places like Richmond and Atlanta and they marched off with their masters…
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