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If the Trump Administration had been true to its premise, however, it wouldn’t have championed this pro-Confederate version of history. It was, after all, the Union, not the Confederacy, that won the Civil War.

Confederates are Democrats. Trump is a Republican. Therefore, Dr. Berry is mixing things up and is very confused. Trump championed the Union. The Union is Republican. This person is a History Prof at the University of Texas from BS & MS & PhD from UCLA. In my day, 3 degrees from one institution was inbreeding and frowned upon.

From her Wiki:

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Daina Ramey Berry is an American historian. She is Chair of the History Department at The University of Texas at Austin. She is also the Oliver H. Radkey Regents Professor of History, a Fellow of Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and the George W. Littlefield Professorship in American History. She was formerly the Associate Dean of The Graduate School at The University of Texas at Austin. She studies gender and slavery, as well as Black women's history in the United States. She has written books about the connection between the idea of skilled work and the gender of enslaved people in antebellum Georgia, the economic history of slavery in the United States, and the historical contributions of African American women to the politics and governance of the United States and to securing their own rights.

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In 2017, Berry published the book The Price for their Pound of Flesh: The Value of the Enslaved, from Womb to Grave, in the Building of a Nation. In The Price for their Pound of Flesh, Berry studies the economic history of slavery in the United States, examining how a price was assigned to the bodies of enslaved people in America from before they were born until after they died.[5] Berry proposes four types of value that an enslaved person could hold: their assessed value, as determined by others for the purposes of accounting and sale; their market value, which was a function of local demand; their soul value, derived from inherent spiritual self-worth and reinforced by familial and communal connections; and their ghost value, evaluated by body brokers who engaged in the sale of human cadavers.[6] Through this categorisation scheme, Berry is able to produce an economic history which is not completely centered around the market. Rather, by including the inherent self-value that many enslaved people held through the idea of soul value, Berry also produces an intellectual history of the thoughts, emotions, and ideas of enslaved people when considering their own value.[7] This makes the book a work of both economic history and social history.[8] Berry's focus on the factors that produced assigned value, as well as the value of unborn slaves, also makes a contribution to the historical literature on the violent role of gender and reproduction in the systems of American slavery.[8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daina_Ramey_Berry

I'm a numbers guy and that bolding is mine. She's not a numbers gal. Emotion over facts. No thanks.