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The authors, James and Walter Kennedy, defend slavery (pages 81-119.) and segregation. (Page 263.) The writers acknowledge that some enslaved people were physically abused in the south; however, they claim it was rare. The authors mainly focus on telling stories about enslaved people that were happy with their lives. For example, there is a part in the book with interviews from the 1930s with elderly formerly enslaved people, and they talk about how they didn't have it that bad. (Pages 96-100.) The writers note that there are many ghettos and that people were safer when enslaved. (Pages 115-116.) The authors insult abolitionists. (Pages 49, 79, 89, 109, 110, 115, 117, and 276.) They will also tell you why they think that voters should have to pass an exam where one must know United States History, United States Geography, and mathematics before they can vote in any elections. (Pages 253-256.) The writers insult the NAACP too (page 151 and page 307.), and they complain that there is a Black History Month in the United States. (pages 294-297.) The authors also complain about how the Federal Government desegregated public schools. (See pages 153, 243, 249, 250, and 264.) The writers claim that southern states were not rebelling against the United States government to preserve slavery legally; however, the authors put the Constitution of the Confederate States of America at the end of their book, which reads otherwise. (Page 347.) The Confederate States Constitution isn’t in the new version of the book however. Article I, Section 9, Clause 4 of the Confederate States Constitution restricted the Confederate States government from ending slavery in any way: “No bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves, shall be passed.” - Article I, Section 9, Clause 4 of the Confederate States Constitution (This quote can be found on page 352 of the original book.) Article IV, Section 2, Clause 1 of the Confederate States Constitution violated states rights because the Confederate States government legally banned the individual Confederate States from interfering with slavery: “The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all the privileges and immunities of citizens of the several States, and shall have the right of transit and sojourn in any State of this confederacy, with their slaves and other property; and the right of property in said slaves shall not be thereby impaired.” - Article IV, Section 2, Clause 1 of the Confederate States Constitution (See page 360 of the original book.) Article IV, Section 3, Clause 3 offered slavery to all future territories conquered or acquired by the Confederacy. “The Confederate States may acquire new territory; and Congress shall have power to legislate and provide governments for the inhabitants of all territory belonging to the Confederate States, lying without the limits of the several States, and may permit them, at such times, and in such manner as it may by law provide, to form States to be admitted into the Confederacy. In all such territory the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists in the Confederate States, shall be recognized and protected by Congress and by the territorial government; and the inhabitants of the several Confederate States and Territories shall have the right to take to such territory any slaves lawfully held by them in any of the States or Territories of the Confederate States.” - Article IV, Section 3, Clause 3 of the Confederate States Constitution (This is on page 361 of the original book) Furthermore, Neo-Confederates think that President Lincoln’s suspension of the writ of habeas corpus was unconstitutional, yet the Confederate States Constitution reads as follows - “The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it.“ - Article I, Section 9, Clause 2 of the Constitution of the Confederate States of America (It’s also almost copied word-for-word from the United States Constitution and it’s in the same numbered section and it can be found on page 352 of the original book.) On a similar topic - Neo-Confederates believe that secession was and is legal according to the United States Constitution, yet the Confederate States Constitution reads as follows - “No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation;” - Article 1, Section 10 of the Confederate States Constitution (This quote can be read on page 354 of the original book. The author of this quote borderline copied that quote from Article 1, Section 10 of the United States Constitution.) “no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State, nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the consent of the Legislatures of the States concerned, as well as of the Congress.” - Article IV, Section 3, Clause 1 of the Constitution of the Confederate States of America (This is on page 360 of the original book and it too was taken from the United States Constitution.) “The Confederate States shall guarantee to every State that now is, or hereafter may become, a member of this Confederacy, a republican form of government;” - Article IV, Section 3, Clause 4 of the Confederate States Constitution (Meaning that the Confederate States government had the constitutional power to oppose any monarchical or any non-republican form of government that one or several of the individual Confederate States might have ever attempted to implement. (This is on page 360 of the original book and the quote was also almost taken, word-for-word, from the same numbered section in the United States Constitution.)