Secession badge
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secession-badge-265-2730013
title:
Secession badge
text:
A secession badge, also called a secession cockade, was a decorative flower made of fabric or ribbon that was used to signal support for the secession of slave states from the United States during the sectional crisis that began in 1858. The badge was often attached with a pin that bore symbolic significance, such as a palmetto for South Carolina. One memoirist recalled of the early days of the American Civil War, "...it was not uncommon to meet on Pennsylvania Avenue a defiant Southerner openly
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
1860–1861 U.S. clothing accessory
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secession_badge
date created:
date modified:
2024-03-24T03:03:19Z
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image:
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