Confederate Pride

These web pages were designed and are maintained by J.T. Donnelly Jr. They are intended to tell the truth about the South and the war between the States.

Schools do not teach the true history. They do not teach what was intended by the South or the North or why. Slavery was an issue, not a cause.

While I do not condone what happened in those days of slavery, I also cannot change the way things were. I can tell you the truth and help you understand that the Confederate Battle Flag is not a racist symbol. Slavery was rampant in the Colonies for over 200 years before the Confederate Flag was designed. Massachusetts began importing slaves in 1638 and was followed by Rhode Island. The chief slave ports were located in Rhode Island.
New England's wealth and economy was fundamentally based on slave trading and exporting rum. In 1774, North and South Carolina forbade the import of slaves. In 1787, the new U.S. Constitution forbade Congress from banning the import of slaves because of the influence of New England slave traders. Other Northern States were heavily involved also. New York and Philadelphia both found the slave business lucrative. New York took over the number one spot for importing slaves from Rhode Island.
The slaves were captured prisoners by African Chieftains who sold them to slave traders. Slavery was an institution in Africa and migrated to this country. Some African rulers became very wealthy by providing slaves for other countries.
President Abraham Lincoln freely admitted that the North was just as responsible for the existence of slaves as the South.
By 1830 there were over 3000 black slave owners and that is backed up by census reports. There were a great number of those 3000 in the north.
There were no ships of Southern Registry used to transport slaves. They were either foreign or Northern registry.
The Battle Flag was first seen in Manassas carried by a Virginia Unit.
How then, could it ever be a symbol of slavery ?

The NAACP keeps stating that the South committed treason.
On January 12, 1848, Abraham Lincoln from Illinois, serving in the U.S. House of Representatives, spoke openly of a state's right to secede, declaring

"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better ... This most sacred right, a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world."

Many northern leaders also advocated the rights of secession even though they would later fight a war to prevent the Southern states from exercising those rights. With due credit, President Abraham Lincoln made no pretense that his actions in invading the Confederate States of America were legal, constitutional, or even right, for that matter. He simply believed that he must prevent the formation of a new and powerful nation to his Southern border. Lincoln sought to preserve "his view" of the Union.

After Fort Sumter, Lincoln sought legal advice and was informed by Chief Justice Roger Taney that South Carolina had not committed treason. After his victory over the South, there were no treason trials, They knew that what the Southern states did was not treason, but an attempt to exercise their constitutional rights. No one in the Confederacy was ever convicted on charges of treason against the United States. It was determined in 1865 that Man's quest for freedom was not treason.