Make no mistake!

       With white supremacy very much of a current issue it's well to reflect on the treasonous rebellion of the states the seceded from the Union. While the North won the war in many ways the South won the peace, with the South's pushing that their fight was a 'noble lost cause'.  This maintains the fiction that the war was not about slavery.  

      On the contrary "The vice president of the Confederacy, Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia declared that the rebel nation's '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.'"   Quoted in And There Was Light; Abraham Lincoln and the American Struggle, Jon Meacham.

Takk for alt,

Al

I would not want to be the bricklayer! The monks retreat to the cliff top for isolation and then their dramatic monasteries draw the multitudes.