give me arguments why the confederate weren't racists so i can rehash them to normies triggered by the lynyrd skynyrd patch on my leather jacket
It wasn't about race, just the ability to own people as property
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They were racist. You won't find any credible source saying otherwise. Sorry senpai.
Literally everyone back then were racists, even many abolitionists hated blacks, they just thought slavery was a moral evil and they wanted them out of the country completely
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>>136858906
Found the carpetbaggers!