The cotton nabobs had made the South a no-go area for the Constitution... - Allen C. Guelzo

Trying to plant such an oligarchy in the midst of what was otherwise the world's most successful republican regime was no small task, and it required the invention of ideological monstrosities to justify it. In the Southern case, the monstrosities included race-based rationales for the enslavement of Africans.

Emancipation, not colonization, was the real goal to which the logic of the American Founding was driving the nation.

The real crime of white supremacy was not that it put up statues, or even that it made speeches, but that it attacked citizens and passed laws.