confederacy

Example Sentences

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Twelve have committed, with the promise of three others, to form a permanent confederacy.

From Washington Post

“But even if they try to divorce slavery from it — which you can’t — how do you justify waving the flag of a confederacy that tried to tear the country apart, then call yourself a patriot?”

From New York Times

“The entire point of the Lost Cause, after Reconstruction, kind of building up this ideology of valorizing the former confederacy . . . was so it wouldn’t be marginalized in memory,” Schmidt said.

From Washington Post

They sent supplies and arms to the confederacy, many wanting slavery to continue because of their own business interests.

From BBC

Scrutiny that began with statues and monuments to the confederacy have extended to other historical figures, and to some buildings, streets and cities named for them.

From Washington Times