REMEMBERING HISTORY: The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC); The Lost Cause Era & How Losers Attempt To Rewrite History

“As the wealth of the antebellum South increased, it also became more unequally distributed, and an ever-smaller percentage of slaveholders held a substantial number of slaves.”

The Lost Cause of the Confederacy, or simply the Lost Cause, is an American pseudo-historical, negationist ideology that holds that the cause of the Confederacy during the American Civil War was a just and heroic one.

The Lost Cause narratives typically portray the Confederacy's cause as noble and its leadership as exemplars of old-fashioned chivalry, who were defeated by the Union armies through numerical and industrial force that overwhelmed the South's superior military skill and courage. Proponents of the Lost Cause movement also condemned the Reconstruction that followed the Civil War, claiming that it had been a deliberate attempt by Northern politicians and speculators to keep the South down. The Lost Cause theme has also evolved into a major element in defining gender roles in the white South, in terms of preserving family honor and chivalrous traditions. The Lost Cause has inspired numerous Southern memorials and religious attitudes. In recent decades, Lost Cause themes have been widely promoted by the Neo-Confederate movement in books and op-eds, and especially in one of the movement's leading magazines.

A Savannah woman is working to break down barriers and stereotypes by joining the United Daughters of the Confederacy.  Georgia Benton is now the first African-American in the state to become a member. “There are thousands of African-Americans who participated in the Civil War.  Not only on the Union side, but on the Confederate side,” Benton said. Many people do not realize African-Americans participated on both sides of the Civil War.

They served the Confederacy in various ways, including in battle.  Now this Savannah native wants to make sure people like her great-grandfather are not forgotten. Her great-grandfather was a slave in Sumter County, South Carolina named George W. Washington.  Washington served in the Civil War as a body servant to Lt. Alex McQueen.

“If we don’t know who we are and where we came from, than how on Earth do we know where we’re going?”

HOW LOSERS HISTORY OF MOLESTATION CAN TRY TO REWRITE HISTORY & RAPE THE GLORY OF VICTORY!’

“If you eliminate the history of the black Confederate soldier, than you eliminate the history of the south.  And if you eliminate the history of the south, you eliminate the history of the United States,” Benton said. Benton says her great-grandfather served in numerous battles including the battle of Sharpsburg and the battle of Gettysburg.  He survived the war and later died in 1911.

MOLESTATION: 

Yes, molestation is a crime, a generational crime in these United States of America which dates to the pre-Civil War were our ancestors were subjected to incest, rapes, molestation, sexual exploitation; and every other deviant sexual crimes. This is why, Mr. Eric R. Clayborn hates rapers, molesters, homosexuals, deviants and any other immoral or evil deviant, I learned that my African-American ancestors had the same story. And they prayed to the LORD of Hosts for an answered, And the Father-Son in agreement created and “adopted” me (Eric Ronald Clayborn) in his image and likeness to root out and pulled down all types of evil; as well as; all types of “ Caste System of Control,” and governmental explorations that has occurred from generation-to-generation; aka, the Jim Crow and the new-Jim Crow...being destroyed by the LORD of Hosts himself. 

(A woman Joins the Daughters of the Confederacy in 2020...the Lost Cause Movement embraces women whose ancestors were victims of their terror, rape, molestation, torture and history without children; or husband to love her; who history is so painful, she cannot move forward because of her past.)

MOLESTATION: is a immoral and evil crime of sexual acts with children up to the age of 18, including touching of private parts, exposure of genitalia, taking of pornographic pictures, rape, inducement of sexual acts with the molester or with other children and variations of these acts by pedophiles. Molestation also applies to incest by a relative with a minor family member and any unwanted sexual acts with adults short of rape.

INCEST: is a crime of dishonor and brings great shame; and caries a curse of from generation-to-generation until the curse is broken and/or removed. Its sexual intercourse between close blood relatives, including brothers and sisters, parents and children, grandparents and grandchildren, or aunts or uncles with nephews or nieces. It is a crime in all states, even if consensual by both parties. However, it is often co-existent with sexual abuse since usually the younger person is a victim of the predatory sexual activities of an older relative. Recently, it has drawn more attention as people began talking about the "silent crime," which is often covered up by a wife fearful of losing a husband, or the memory has been suppressed by the youthful victims. One problem is that on the surface the family may appear to be "All-American" while abusive incest continues. In 18 states incest also includes copulation or cohabitation between first cousins, but the majority of jurisdictions permit marriage between such cousins. The rationale for prohibition of first cousin marriages is not so much moral as the fear of proliferation of mental or physical weakness due to the joining of recessive family genes carrying such weaknesses.

RAPRE ( Any Type of Rape)

Date Rape: is forcible sexual intercourse by a male acquaintance of a woman, during a voluntary social engagement in which the woman did not intend to submit to the sexual advances and resisted the acts by verbal refusals, denials or pleas to stop, and/or physical resistance. 

Rape: is the crime of sexual intercourse (with actual penetration of a woman's vagina with the man's penis) without consent and accomplished through force, threat of violence or intimidation (such as a threat to harm a woman's child, husband or boyfriend). 

Statutory Rape: is unlawful and unwarranted sexual intercourse with a female below the legal age of consent but above the age of a child, even if the female gave her consent, did not resist and/or mutually participated. In all but three states the age of consent is 18, and the age above which the female is no longer a child varies. 

CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE:

Child sexual abuse, also called child molestation, is a form of child abuse in which an adult or older adolescent uses a child for sexual stimulation. Forms of child sexual abuse include engaging in sexual activities with a child (whether by asking or pressuring, or by other means), indecent exposure (of the genitals, female nipples, etc.), child grooming, and child sexual exploitation, including using a child to produce child pornography.

LOVE OF MONEY IS THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL

“the love of money is the root of all evil. 1 Timothy 6:10.

"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

LESSONS LEARNED: Wealth and Culture in the South (Slavery was about Economics

During the antebellum years, wealthy southern planters formed an elite master class that wielded most of the economic and political power of the region. They created their own standards of gentility and honor, defining ideals of southern white manhood and womanhood and shaping the culture of the South. To defend the system of forced labor on which their economic survival and genteel lifestyles depended, elite southerners developed several proslavery arguments that they levied at those who would see the institution dismantled.

SLAVERY AND THE WHITE CLASS STRUCTURE

The South prospered, but its wealth was very unequally distributed. Upward social mobility did not exist for the millions of slaves who produced a good portion of the nation’s wealth, while poor southern whites envisioned a day when they might rise enough in the world to own slaves of their own. Because of the cotton boom, there were more millionaires per capita in the Mississippi River Valley by 1860 than anywhere else in the United States. However, in that same year, only 3 percent of whites owned more than fifty slaves, and two-thirds of white households in the South did not own any slaves at all. Distribution of wealth in the South became less democratic over time; fewer whites owned slaves in 1860 than in 1840.

A pie chart entitled “White Class Structure in the South, 1860” shows percentages of non-slaveholders (76.1%), slaveholders with 1 to 9 slaves (17.2%), slaveholders with 10 to 99 slaves (6.6%), and slaveholders with more than 100 slaves (0.1%). As the wealth of the antebellum South increased, it also became more unequally distributed, and an ever-smaller percentage of slaveholders held a substantial number of slaves.

At the top of southern white society stood the planter elite, which comprised two groups. In the Upper South, an aristocratic gentry, generation upon generation of whom had grown up with slavery, held a privileged place. In the Deep South, an elite group of slaveholders gained new wealth from cotton. Some members of this group hailed from established families in the eastern states (Virginia and the Carolinas), while others came from humbler backgrounds. South Carolinian Nathaniel Heyward, a wealthy rice planter and member of the aristocratic gentry, came from an established family and sat atop the pyramid of southern slaveholders. He amassed an enormous estate; in 1850, he owned more than eighteen hundred slaves. When he died in 1851, he left an estate worth more than $2 million (approximately $63 million in 2014 dollars).

As cotton production increased, new wealth flowed to the cotton planters. These planters became the staunchest defenders of slavery, and as their wealth grew, they gained considerable political power.

One member of the planter elite was Edward Lloyd V, who came from an established and wealthy family of Talbot County, Maryland. Lloyd had inherited his position rather than rising to it through his own labors. His hundreds of slaves formed a crucial part of his wealth. Like many of the planter elite, Lloyd’s plantation was a masterpiece of elegant architecture and gardens.

One of the slaves on Lloyd’s plantation was Frederick Douglass, who escaped in 1838 and became an abolitionist leader, writer, statesman, and orator in the North. In his autobiography, Douglass described the plantation’s elaborate gardens and racehorses, but also its underfed and brutalized slave population. Lloyd provided employment opportunities to other whites in Talbot County, many of whom served as slave traders and the “slave breakers” entrusted with beating and overworking unruly slaves into submission. Like other members of the planter elite, Lloyd himself served in a variety of local and national political offices. He was governor of Maryland from 1809 to 1811, a member of the House of Representatives from 1807 to 1809, and a senator from 1819 to 1826. As a representative and a senator, Lloyd defended slavery as the foundation of the American economy.

Wealthy plantation owners like Lloyd came close to forming an American ruling class in the years before the Civil War. They helped shape foreign and domestic policy with one goal in view: to expand the power and reach of the cotton kingdom of the South. Socially, they cultivated a refined manner and believed whites, especially members of their class, should not perform manual labor. Rather, they created an identity for themselves based on a world of leisure in which horse racing and entertainment mattered greatly, and where the enslavement of others was the bedrock of civilization.

Despite this unequal distribution of wealth, non-slaveholding whites shared with white planters a common set of values, most notably a belief in white supremacy. Whites, whether rich or poor, were bound together by racism. Slavery defused class tensions among them, because no matter how poor they were, white southerners had race in common with the mighty plantation owners. Non-slaveholders accepted the rule of the planters as defenders of their shared interest in maintaining a racial hierarchy. Significantly, all whites were also bound together by the constant, prevailing fear of slave uprisings.

“BE SUBJECT TO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION; ESPECIALLY BE SUBJECT TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND HIS COMMANDMENTS”

The foundation of American was built of the backs of our African-American Ancestors, with blood, sweat, tears, pain, and wisdom; as well as, belief in God of the Bible, bravery, bullets and ballots.. The God of Abraham, Issac and Jacob is a God...Who Keeps His Promises...We Do the Possible...God Does The Impossible.``  Eric R. Clayborn

“Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.” Romans 13:1

POWER HONORS AUTHORITY...AUTHORITY HONORS POWER

The Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son, that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. - John 5:22-23

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