LEADER 03437oam 22005174a 450 001 9910467245003321 005 20211123192746.0 010 $a0-8139-4377-9 035 $a(CKB)4100000010119190 035 $a(OCoLC)1107057412 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse83307 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6027094 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010119190 100 $a20190614d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe false cause $efraud, fabrication, and white supremacy in Confederate memory /$fAdam H. Domby 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aCharlottesville :$cThe University of Virginia Press,$d[2020]. 210 3$aBaltimore, Md. :$cProject MUSE,$d[2020]. 210 4$dİ2020. 215 $a1 online resource 311 $a0-8139-4376-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aRewriting the past in stone: monuments, North Carolina politics, and Jim Crow, 1890-1929 -- Inventing Confederates: creating heroes to maintain white supremacy, 1900-1951 -- The loyal deserters: Confederate pension fraud in Civil War memory, 1901-1940 -- Playing the faithful slave: pensions for ex-slaves and free people of color, 1905-1951 -- The soldiers who weren't: how loyal slaves became "black Confederates," 1910-2017 -- The lost cause in the age of Trump. 330 $aThis book focuses on North Carolina to examine the role of lies and exaggerations in the creation of the Lost Cause narrative. In the process, the book shows how these lies have long obscured the past and been used to buttress white supremacy in ways that resonate to this day. The author explores how fabricated narratives about the war's cause, Reconstruction, and slavery--as expounded at monument dedications and political rallies--were crucial to Jim Crow. He questions the persistent myth of the Confederacy as one of history's greatest armies, revealing a convenient disregard of deserters, dissent, and Unionism, and exposes how pension fraud facilitated a myth of unwavering support of the Confederacy among nearly all white Southerners. In addition, the author shows how the dubious concept of "black Confederates" was spun from a small number of elderly and indigent African American North Carolinians who got pensions by presenting themselves as "loyal slaves." The book concludes with a penetrating examination of how the Lost Cause narrative and the lies on which it is based continue to haunt the country today and still work to maintain racial inequality.--Provided by publisher. 606 $aWhite supremacy movements$zUnited States$xHistory 606 $aSoldiers' monuments$xMoral and ethical aspects$zSouthern States 607 $aUnited States$xHistoriography 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$xMonuments$xMoral and ethical aspects 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWhite supremacy movements$xHistory. 615 0$aSoldiers' monuments$xMoral and ethical aspects 676 $a320.56/909 700 $aDomby$b Adam H.$f1983-$01022975 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910467245003321 996 $aThe false cause$92430139 997 $aUNINA