confederate

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Warnock became Georgia’s first Black senator and the first Black Democratic senator from a former confederate state.

From Washington Post • Oct. 24, 2022

The first march I ever attended was a protest in January 2000, to bring down the confederate flag from the top of the South Carolina State House.

From Salon • Jul. 4, 2022

We celebrate the notice of emancipation finally reaching Texas to end slavery in the last confederate state in 1865.

From Scientific American • Jun. 17, 2022

Roth, who had mentored the progress of Lelchuk’s “American Mischief” toward its ultimate success, had once again happened on a compliant confederate.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2021

Housemaid, nurse, mother, confederate, counselor, chef—what ten thousand things was Madame Manec to Etienne?

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr