Note how the slave power used ‘states rights’ as a term of art.
States rights for them meant people from Virginia could go to NY, and the state laws of NY were not allowed to have effect.
If you think that is a proper use of states rights, you may be a supporter of the slave power.
By contrast, NY teachers were permitted to teach students how to read and write. If they went to another state and did that, states rights meant that they would not be permitted to do it if the state they went to forbade it.
See how that works? States rights means as interpreted by the slave power means the slave power wins, and anyone opposed to the slave power loses.
If you think that is fair, then you might be a neo-confederate.
Donny, donny, don’t pretend to be dense.
‘The Slave Power’ was a term of art employed by the International Working Men’s Association. That you echo it 150 years later is a testament to how their ideas have penetrated certain ideological camps. Neo-yankeedom evidently being one of them.
The International Working Men’s Association was the same organization that employed Karl Marx as their recording secretary. It was an amalgamation of left-wing socialist, communist and anarchist associations, and included the veterans of the failed revolutions of 1848. Many of those 48ers migrated to America and became ardent supporters of abolition and Abraham Lincoln, as their letter penned by Marx illustrates.
Washington and Jefferson and other large slave holders didn’t refer to themselves as “the Slave Power”. No, that term of art was invented by people who think in terms of Class Warfare to denigrate and objectify Americans like Washington and Jefferson.
You’re certainly welcome to use the term Slave Power. But we should clarify its origin.