The Stone women “were able to retain their plantation but, due to emancipation (the freeing of slaves), lost all their property in slaves. The family had to face the new reality of planting and harvesting their fields with freed people who, Kate regretted, now demanded ‘high wages’.
”Kate felt ambivalent about the end of slavery, but after the war, she did her best to adjust to a world that she felt had been turned upside down. She married, raised children, and devoted herself to memorializing the service of Confederate“ traitors.
In other words, this Klan bitch "founded the Madison Parish chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy”, dedicated to building oppressive, racist monuments to undercut equality, and to revere white supremacy.
“Immediately after the Civil War, federal troops occupied the South. Newly freed blacks began to hold political office, start businesses, buy property, and go to school. White Southerners violently chafed under the racial role reversal in the era that came to be known, with deep-seated anger, as Reconstruction. The Ku Klux Klan ruled the night. With an abundance of white men with military training sitting about, recruits were easy to come by.
"When federal troops ended their occupation in the late 1870s, the festering ugliness burst to the surface. In North Carolina and across the South, whites used violence to remove blacks from office, rig elections, intimidate voters at polling places, destroy black businesses and farms. Whites took control again. The new white-dominated legislatures began passing literacy requirements and property requirements for voting, imposing poll taxes, and institutionalizing racial segregation. Thus began the ‘Jim Crow’ era in the South.
"It was against this backdrop that the UDC flourished…
…"By building monuments to the Confederacy and gaining control of school curricula, the Daughters spread a false history aimed at perpetuating the culture and ideals of the Civil War-era South, a society built on white supremacy.”
Now, today’s Republicons are using textbooks like these, and agitating against “CRT” in schools, so that white supremacy goes unchallenged. They are passing legislation to rig elections, and intimidate voters. And they are still complaining about “high wages.” This is why the Republicon agenda has been labeled as Jim Crow 2.0. ‘Cause it is.
