[nolu chan]

"Denigrating the South" means pointing out that the Confederacy was a tyranny thru and thru and that it never believed those truths expressed in the Declaration of Independence such as all men are created equal.

North and South did not really believe those truths expressed in the Declaration of Independence such as all men are created equal. In most states, women were prohibited from owning real property. The 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote became law in 1920.

They did not mean that all men were equal, and all were superior to women did they?

[justshutupandtakeit]

While there were plenty of warts on the Yankees at least their society was not completely structured around an abomination that was the antithesis of the Declaration's beliefs.

Actually, this book has interesting summary of the role of the GOP in bringing voting rights to women. Almost all the most prominent figures in that fight were Republicans and the states which allowed women to vote prior to the amendment were Republican. Almost all the DemocRATS were opposed.

Americans generally believed all white men were superior to all women until fairly recently but other generalizations get fuzzy though it could be concluded that they believed everyone was superior to Black women.