![]() As for the nation's other core document, the Constitution legalized slavery and the continued importation of slaves until 1808 because South Carolina and other slave states extracted these conditions in exchange for joining the new union - and then immediately began trying to renege on that bargain. In deference to demands by South Carolina slaveholders, Thomas Jefferson removed condemnation of slavery from the Declaration of Independence, staining forever via this omission the first of America's two core documents. But in a chapter I published last year about South Carolina's long, sordid history of resisting the American consensus (see "Nation Within a Nation: The American South and the Federal Government," University Press of Florida), I make exactly that case. No state mounted greater opposition to the Republic for which we stand, nor resisted federal power and legitimacy so ardently, nor fought as vigorously on behalf of the establishment, continuation and justification of slavery in America than South Carolina. ![]() In its perpetual resistance to the Union - which ultimately stood down slavery, racism's most dehumanizing form - and its racist legacies including segregation, the Palmetto State has had few peers. If there is a more appropriate place to draw that attention than South Carolina, I don't know it. The massacre by a young white man, according to police, of nine African-Americans last week at a Charleston, S.C., church Bible study has drawn the nation's attention to lingering racial hatred in America. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images) Win McNamee/Getty Images Debate over the flag flying at the Capitol was again ignited off after nine people were shot and killed during a prayer meeting at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Nikki Haley announced that she will call for the Confederate flag to be removed on Jin Columbia, South Carolina. Facebook Twitter Email COLUMBIA, SC - JUNE 23: The Confederate flag flies on the Capitol grounds one day after South Carolina Gov.
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