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Actually, white Southerners would have been pro-slavery without religion; while white Northerners likely would have been antislavery only because of religion.
American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
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Otherwise your claim is that Lynyrd Skynrd is a pro-slavery musical group dedicated to the causes of treason and secession.
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Some folks were upset that I referred to a woman toting a Confederate flag yesterday as “pro-slavery” in a cheeky photo caption.
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I have no problem with making it the responsibility of the lady with the flag to make the case that she personally is not pro-slavery even though she carries the flag.
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Otherwise your claim is that Lynyrd Skynrd is a pro-slavery musical group dedicated to the causes of treason and secession.
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Instead, he dredged up some evil old mythology that was probably spread by pro-slavery southerners.
Matthew Yglesias » Did Haiti Form a Pact With the Devil? 2010
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The Senate did become a bastion of the pro-slavery politicians, but not until the time of the Mo Compromise, by which time pop growth in the North had irreversibly negated southern pro-slavery interests in the House of Reps.
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Because when you mischaracterize her with the label of being “pro-slavery in defense of treason,” or whatever it was, you do yourself no good politically. theAmericanist says:
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If this was true, you should be able to find someone — better yet, some population — that was pro-slavery and pro-Reconstruction, or pro-slavery and anti-Jim Crow, or pro-Jim Crow and pro-affirmative action, or so forth.
Matthew Yglesias » The Trouble With Standing Athwart History 2009
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I do, however, live in the 21st Century where this flag is viewed by a vast majority of people as being a symbol of treason against the United States and pro-slavery.
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