confederacy

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In the confederacy, Georgia enacted a similar 15-day grace period, while Florida law provided an extra 20 days.

From Slate • Mar. 13, 2026

“This was one way of shifting enslaved labor from agriculture to industry, a necessity for the confederacy during the Civil War,” says Lichtenstein.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025

Known as “Lament for Confederation,” it was a landmark moment in First Nations history, calling out the meaning of the confederacy and the impact of colonization on Indigenous peoples.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 5, 2024

Instead, Cortés wandered into a collection of city states, three of them joined in a powerful confederacy, the Triple Alliance.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 2, 2024

This confederacy incorporated six widely dispersed nations comprising thousands of agricultural villages and hunting grounds in what are currently known as New York, Pennsylvania, and Quebec.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz