Matthew Page Andrews wrote “The Women of the South in War Times” and his book he emphasized how he believed that slavery was benevolent and the southern women were doing African Americans a favor by taking them in and educating them. Matthew Page’s book was accepted as a popular textbook for schools in the South and so as his beliefs and teachings were more widely spread it is likely that his skewed perceptions caused people to believe that Reconstruction was wrong and took away the “good” that southerners were doing for African Americans. Susie King Taylor wrote an important article which highlighted the fact that ex-confederate Daughters were trying to ban “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” because they believed that it misconstrued what actually took place in the South. The ex-confederate Daughters were trying to cover up what took place in the South so that they could say that Reconstruction was falsely advertised as helping former slaves. Many Lost Cause associations wanted to cover up what took place in the South, which meant covering up the truth when it tried to come out. Lost Cause associations greatly influenced the legacy of