| Confederate States of America | |||||||||
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| 1861–1865/66 | |||||||||
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Motto: Deo vindice | |||||||||
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| Capital | Richmond | ||||||||
| Capital-in-exile | Danville | ||||||||
| Largest city | New Orleans | ||||||||
| Dominant mode of production | Slavery | ||||||||
| Government | Oligarchical reactionary slave state | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• 1860 United States presidential election | 1860 | ||||||||
• Secession crisis | 1860 | ||||||||
• Formation of the CSA | 1861 | ||||||||
| 1861 | |||||||||
| 1861 | |||||||||
| 1865 | |||||||||
• Final surrender | 1865 | ||||||||
• Legal abolition | 1866 | ||||||||
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The Confederate States of America (CSA), also known as the Confederacy, was a reactionary slave state rooted in white supremacy and settler colonialism. It existed during the Statesian Civil War, and its defeat acted as bourgeois revolution as it resulted in the destruction of slavery in the Southern United States.[1]
Class structure
76% of settlers in the Confederacy owned no slaves, 17% owned 1–9 slaves, and 6.5% owned more than ten slaves. Less than 1% of settlers owned more than 100 slaves. Of the settlers who did not own slaves, 10% owned no land and most owned less than 100 acres.[2]
Marxist analysis
Karl Marx
In Karl Marx's work, the United States' war against the Confederacy was important for the destruction of chattel slavery and good for the proletarian movement. Marx also viewed the Confederacy as the aggressor in the Statesian Civil War, stating that "the South broke the peace", going against the traditional narrative of the so-called "War of Northern Aggression". Marx viewed the Confederacy as an oligarchy that wasn't representative of the majority of the population.[3]
Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels wrote a lot on the military strategies used by both the Confederacy and US during the American Civil War. He also sided against the Confederate causes, supporting Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation and the abolition of slavery. Engels also fought against British support for the Confederates. He also supported the Republican Party against the CSA.[3]
References
- ↑ Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic: Volume 1, Commerce and Compromise, 1820-1850
- ↑ Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (2014). An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States: '"Indian Country"' (pp. 133–134). [PDF] Boston, Massachusetts: Beacon Press. ISBN 9780807000403
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Karl Marx and the American Civil War