[Bratch]

"There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South.

Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave.

Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.."

[Nepeta]

"There was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton Fields called the Old South.

Here in this pretty world, Gallantry took its last bow. Here was the last ever to be seen of Knights and their Ladies Fair, of Master and of Slave.

Look for it only in books, for it is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.."

I just cannot bring myself even fleetingly to a romanticized view of a class whose status and well being depended upon the abomination of slavery.

I say this as someone with family roots in Alabama and ancestors who fought for the Confederacy, and yes, some who owned slaves. But none of that makes slavery any prettier or the class that fed off slave labor anything other than abhorrent.