Lost Cause Myth justifying Slavery and the Confederacy after the Civil War

The Lost Cause of the Confederacy or the Lost Cause is an American Pseudohistory myth which tries to justify the Confederacy and slavery, such as that Slavery was educational, the war was fought over tariffs, the North were looting raping war criminals which would later be called Northern Aggression, Robert E. Lee was a Confederate hero, there were Black Confederate soldiers, among other extreme claims that have no factual basis.

## History

### Reconstruction

After the Civil War the U.S. Government helped the South by restoring buildings, making Southern veterans swear an oath to the U.S., and giving African Americans the right to vote but the Reconstruction period ended too soon and the South started instating Jim Crow Laws.

### Ku Klux Klan

In 1865 six confederate veterans John B. Kennedy, James R. Crowe, Frank O. McCord, Richard R. Reed, J. Calvin Jones, John C. Lester, and Nathan Bedford Forrest. The Klan were known for murdering African-Americans often by lynching them and either leaving them or leaving them on the side of roads, the Klan would also assassinate people like politician George W. Ashburn in 1868, black civil rights activist Michael Shwerner, Andrew Goodman, and James Chaney in the 1960s among others. The Klan was later dissolved in 1872 due in large part to president Ulysses S. Grant enforcing anti-K.K.K. protocols.

#### Jim Crow and Jim Crow Laws

Jim Crow was a theater persona popularized by Thomas D. Rice, Jim Crow actors often use blackface and would dance to the song "Jump Jim Crow." Jim Crow laws were established after the Reconstruction Era the southern states to segregate African Americans by separating them from white people which was supposed to be "separate but equal" but the conditions for Africans would be worse, the segregation would only end with the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.

#### Confederados

After the Civil War many former Confederates fled to Brazil where they founded a town called Americana in the hopes of trying to start a cotton slave farm and every year the town holds a festival where the celebrate their heritage.

#### United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC)

The Lost Cause began to spring up after the Civil War in the South and became popular in the Economically and frustrated South and a Southern organization called the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) who became popular in the 1890s and the 1910s for funding Confederate statues and Memorials, establishing the Southern Cross of Honor in 1899 for Southern veterans, establishing the Children of the Confederacy, and donating to Confederate charities gaining the praise of the Ku Klux Klan.

#### Moses Jacob Ezekiel

Famous Jewish sculpture Moses Jacob Ezekiel was highly praised internationally for his ornate statues across the world and he was also praised in the South not only for fighting in the Civil War but also for his statues of Stonewall Jackson and fallen soldiers, he also designed a memorial in Arlington which was commissioned by the previously mentioned UDC.

#### Thomas Dixon Jr.

Thomas was a writer who predicated that a "race war" between whites and African-Americans and that African-Americans are futile and dangerous, he also wrote several books such as *The Clansman, The traitor,* and *the Leopards spots* which were widely praised by racist Southerners.

### WW1

#### *The Birth of a Nation*

*The Birth of a Nation* is a famous movie made in 1915 portraying the K.K.K. as heroic knights lynching a black solider named Gus for the murder of a woman during the Civil War and Reconstruction, the movie was highly praised during the 1910s-1920s for its close ups and fadeouts and was even shown at the White House by Woodrow Wilson, but as a consequence of the movie several white mobs started forming and lynching African-Americans.

#### Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson was born into a pro-slavery southern family, his father Joseph Wilson was a captain in the Confederate Army, after the war he became the president of Princeton university where he discouraged African American, and heavily supported the Lost Cause and Redeemer, when he was president from 1913-1921 he indorsed segregation policies which increased salaries for white workers he also would make racist jokes and call black people "Darky's".

## Modern Day

### Neo-Confederacy

Neo-Confederacy is a white supremist, Christian, hate group which believes that the Confederacy is not racist and that there trying to celebrate their tradition.

### *Gods and Generals*

*Gods* *and Generals* is a 2003 film by Ron F. Maxwell on the Civil War which was been criticized for its offensive depiction of the relationship between slaves and their slaveowners, depicting the Confederacy as heroes and portraying the Union as thieving savages with New Orleans history youtuber Andrew Rakich better known as Atun-Shei films describing as "The most offensive Civil War movie since T*he Birth of a Nation."*

#### Andrew Rakich

Andrew Rakich known as Atun-Shei Films is a New Orleans filmmaker and youtuber who makes videos on history mostly on the Civil War known for his series *Checkmate Lincolnites!,* a show where he plays two characters Billy Yank and Johnny Reb, Billy Yank and Johnny Reb argue over various topics such as if their were black Confederate soldiers, if General William T. Sherman was a war criminal, among other topics relating to the lost Cause.

##### Jim Crow Rock

In Hunters Quay, Scottish Highlands a large Glacial erratic rock was painted to look like it had blackface and had the word "Jim Crow", the rock was later repainted to look like a puffin and was changed to the Puffin Rock.

1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction\_era#
2. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim\_Crow\_(character)
3. ↑ https://unusual-american-history.fandom.com/wiki/Lost\_Cause\_Myth\_justifying\_Slavery\_and\_the\_Confederacy\_after\_the\_Civil\_War?veaction=edit
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United\_Daughters\_of\_the\_Confederacy#Notable\_members
5. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses\_Jacob\_Ezekiel#%22Lost\_Cause%22\_movement
6. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate\_Memorial\_(Arlington\_National\_Cemetery)
7. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Birth\_of\_a\_Nation#Social\_impact
8. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow\_Wilson\_and\_race#
9. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Confederates#Historical\_revisionism
10. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gods\_and\_Generals\_(film)