Abstract
In March 1861, one month into his term as vice president of the newly formed Confederate States of America, Alexander Stephens stood before a Savannah audience, in Georgia, and declared that the government’s “foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and moral condition….” The crowd roared with approval, confident that their great experiment of secession and nation-building would meet with success. Hence was the birth of the Confederate nation-state announced: “the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.”1
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