Events in 1863 surrounding the Emancipation Proclamation demonstrated how progressive movements spur greater victory.
Our organization seeks to eliminate false narratives that prevent progress and laws that have a disparate impact on underrepresented minorities.
Confederates Fought For Slavery
“no bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed.”
- Constitution of the Confederate State of America, Article 1, Section 9.
The Confederate cause — Preservation the right to enslave black men, women, and children forever. A cause rooted a white supremacist belief system.
Robert E. Lee Committed Treason
treason against the united states, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, [or] giving them aid and comfort.
- Constitution of the United States of America, article III, Section 3
Treason. The only crime expressly defined in the US constitution. A clear, succinct, and unchanged definition in the 244 years of our nations existence. All operations under CSA government control constituted treason.
The United Daughters of the Confederacy Distorts American History
Reject a book that calls a Confederate soldier a traitor, a rebel and the war a rebellion
Reject a book that says the South fought to hold her slaves
Reject a book that speaks of the slaveholder as cruel or unjust to his slaves
Reject a book that glories Lincoln and vilifies Jefferson Davis
- Instructions to educators from Mildred Lewis Rutherford, “historian general” of The United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Misinformation. Spread of propaganda with the intent of creating the “lost cause” myth and promoting revisionist history is the primary goal of the UDC.