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Anti-Neo-Confederate: The racism of the persons who the UDC names its awards to the U.S. Military service academy students

3.2.11

Anti-Neo-Confederate: The racism of the persons who the UDC names its awards to the U.S. Military service academy students: "Following the defeat of the Confederacy, Matthew Fontaine Maury attempted to recreate the slave-era Old South in Mexico. As noted by Gaines M. Foster in his book, “Ghosts of the Confederacy,” Maury and his comrades planned to:

Bring with them a proportional number of “negro skilled laborers in agriculture” who would enter the country as “peons” – a concession that caused Maury to consider himself an abolitionist. Together, the best families and faithful peons would build a “New Virginia” in a part of Mexico that reminded Maury of the Valley of the Shenandoah.[iii]"


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