[The South’s] obsession was to maintain a government, an economy, an arrangement of the sexes, a relationship of the races, and a social system that had never existed…except in the fertile imagination of those who would not confront either the reality that existed or the change that would bring them closer to reality.

[The South’s] obsession was to maintain a government, an economy, an arrangement of the sexes, a relationship of the races, and a social system that had never existed…except in the fertile imagination of those who would not confront either the reality that existed or the change that would bring them closer to reality.

– John Hope Franklin –

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