NY Times today ran an article on Montgomery, Alabama which combines its Civil War memorials and Confederate sites with its famed desegregation sites. NY Times wasn’t particularly happy about that.
A country that had started with the ostensible thesis that it was about God acted more and more like it was about men. That kind of alternative thesis is needed to keep something like chattel slavery up.
I’m ashamed to see “conservatism” which is about men. It can’t hope to beat “liberalism.”
Who ran the underground railroads? I don’t think there were too many high minded atheists involved.