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America’s First Red Scare
For many of its ideologues, a slaveholding Confederacy was meant to be a bulwark against radical politics of all stripes.
Andre Fleche is an associate professor of history at Castleton State College and the author of The Revolution of 1861: The American Civil War in the Age of Nationalist Conflict.
For many of its ideologues, a slaveholding Confederacy was meant to be a bulwark against radical politics of all stripes.