“We recognize the negro as God and God’s Book and God’s Law in nature tells us to recognize him - our inferior, fitted expressly for servitude. Freedom only injures the slave. The innate stamp of inferiority is beyond the reach of change. You cannot transform the negro into anything one-tenth as useful or as good as what slavery enables him to be.”
— Jefferson Davis, March 1861
I know EVERYONE was a racist in the 19th century by our standards,
I am not part of any conservative movement that apologizes for the Confederacy.