Southern Slavery Uncovered: legalized white supremacy -

This interview with law professor and public historian Evan Gelobter, owner of the YouTube channel Southern Slavery Uncovered, explains how the antebellum South was a slavocracy based on legalized white supremacy. The Southern states were not simply states with slavery, they were slave societies which justified their existence specifically through legalized white supremacy.

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