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2.2 - Patriarchy, Paternalism, and the Civil War
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2.2 - Patriarchy, Paternalism, and the Civil War

Today we are breaking down some of the issues related to how the social system of the Antebellum South worked and how that paternalistic hierarchy sowed the seeds of the Civil War. Turns out the venn diagram of misogynists and racists is really basically just a circle.

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