She insists that her son Julian, a quasi-intellectual, educated at "only a third-rate college", hypocritically consumed with disdain for his mother's racial bigotry, escort her to the Y on the recently integrated city bus after the Supreme Court ruling in December of 1956 to desegregate the buses of Montgomery, Alabama (Alabama Department of Archives and History 1). ...
Another example would be how Alabama's Leroy Pope Walker summarized that Republican rule would cost southerners first, "our property," "then our liberties," and finally "the sacred purity of our daughters" (79). ... One speech that Dew wrote about that showed pro slavery attitude was by Stephen Fowler Hale who was Alabama's commissioner to Kentucky. ... These speeches that Dew wrote about demonstrated how primary documents can be used to discover the truth about history and reveal the misconceptions of the modern- day opinion that the civil war was really about slavery. ...
Between the years 1790 and 1860, almost 835,000 slaves were moved from the states of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina to Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas. ... The last and final revolution in the history of American bondage was a revolution in moral values and sensibility. For one of the first times in history, both religious and nonclerical associations denounced the institution of slavery as both an act of sin against man and God and as a violation of natural rights. During the 1760s, the first movements in history began to denounce slavery. ... With the southe...
