The False Cause
Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory
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Narrated by:
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Jack de Golia
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By:
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Adam H. Domby
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A fascinating, original, and highly enjoyable book that makes a meaningful contribution to understanding the Lost Cause and Civil War memory.
The Lost Cause ideology that emerged after the Civil War and flourished in the early 20th century in essence sought to recast a struggle to perpetuate slavery as a heroic defense of the South. As Adam Domby reveals here, this was not only an insidious goal, but it was founded on falsehoods.
The False Cause focuses on North Carolina to examine the role of lies and exaggeration in the creation of the Lost Cause narrative. In the process the book shows how these lies have long obscured the past and have been used to buttress white supremacy in ways that resonate to this day.
Domby explores how fabricated narratives about the war’s cause, Reconstruction, and slavery—as expounded at monument dedications and political rallies—were crucial to Jim Crow. He questions the persistent myth of the Confederate army as one of history’s greatest, revealing a convenient disregard of deserters, dissent, and Unionism, and exposes how pension fraud facilitated a myth of unwavering support of the Confederacy among nearly all White Southerners.
Domby shows how the dubious concept of “Black Confederates” was spun from a small number of elderly and indigent African American North Carolinians who got pensions by presenting themselves as “loyal slaves”.
The book concludes with a penetrating examination of how the Lost Cause narrative and the lies on which it is based continue to haunt the country today and still work to maintain racial inequality.
©2020 by the Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia on behalf of University of Virginia Press (P)2022 by Blackstone PublishingWhat listeners say about The False Cause
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- Sweing
- 09-02-2023
Overall quite good
The audio performance is quite good. The story seems accurate and is pretty interesting. It covered a broad history and covered quite a number of shady individuals involved in creating the Lost Cause
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