back next Antebellum Philosophee © 1982 Tom Ferguson There are three versions, two close-ups below for your reading
convenience, of what is essentially a political cartoon done for Art
Papers, putting forth my notion of how the south (& north) were
mobilized & who stood to gain/lose. Kevin Philips says, in his book American Theocracy, that the Confederacy ultimately won
the war and now occupies the White House (2006) (& Kevin was/is a republican).