“Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition.”

About Alexander H. Stephens

Politician • American

Alexander Hamilton Stephens was an American politician who served as the only vice president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. Before the Civil War, he was a prominent Whig and later Democratic congressman...