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What would the situation be like in a victorious Confederacy for ethnic and religious minorities? Would the Confederacy have a similar attitude towards African-Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, Catholics, Jews, and other minorities that the Southern United States had towards them in the aftermath of the American Civil War with the Klan and Jim Crow? Or might the rise of a Jewish immigrant like Judah P. Benjamin to the office of Secretary of War and Secretary of State in the Confederate Cabinet have been less of the anachronism it seems like today and something that only became radical in the aftermath of the Confederacy's defeat?
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