C-SPAN Cities Tour - Mobile: Lonnie Burnett, "Henry Hotze, Confederate Propagandist"

Author Dr. Lonnie Burnett talks about the writings of confederate propagandist, journalist and editor, Henry Hotze, who lived in Mobile, Alabama for less than a decade. Hotze left a record of literary, military, and diplomatic service to his adopted state and to the Confederacy. From 1855-1865, Hotze was an associate editor at John Forsyth's Mobile Register, served in the Confederate Army and as a Confederate diplomat, and edited a London-based newspaper, The Index, that promoted the Confederate cause. His writings promoted a scientific hierarchy of race-based intelligence that was used by white supremacists as a justification for slavery. A sometimes overlooked figure from the American Civil War, Hotze was perhaps the South's most effective propagandist abroad.