Confederates at the time considered their slaves to be sub-humans.
Who else, within 80 years of the Civil War, considered people to be sub-humans? hmmmmmm....history seemed to repeat itself in Europe about 80 years later, and the side that LOST was the aggressor then as well oddly enough.
And for some reason you do not see any reasonable people in Germany celebrating their Nazi Heritage.
Not just “Confederates”......Northerners as well.
This guy:
Abraham Lincoln Quote
“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races – that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything.”
by:
Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865) 16th US President
Source:
Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858
(The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume III, pp. 145-146.)