{"id":323519,"date":"2017-08-28T04:56:30","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T03:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-confederacy-was-brought-about-by-a-small-class-of-wealthy-slaveholders\/"},"modified":"2017-08-28T04:56:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T03:56:30","slug":"the-confederacy-was-brought-about-by-a-small-class-of-wealthy-slaveholders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/the-confederacy-was-brought-about-by-a-small-class-of-wealthy-slaveholders\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The Confederacy Was Brought About by a Small Class of Wealthy Slaveholders\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Janine Jackson interviewed Keri Leigh Merritt about Southern history for the August 18, 2017, episode<\/a> of CounterSpin<\/strong>. This is a lightly edited transcript.<\/em><\/p>\n

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