Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States, said: "The prevailing ideas entertained by Jefferson and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were, that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally, and politically. . . .these ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races." He made it clear that ___________ was at the core of the Confederacy.

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