I do have exactly one story about how a monument actually taught me something about history and it's the story of how I saw the marker in the park in Frederick, MD - which I saw by chance visiting a friend for a barbecue - of how Jubal Early robbed the town during the Civil War
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Also, robbing a slaveowner is just robbing a robber This was a whole thing, the Union Army taking in escaped slaves as "contraband" (archly describing them as property lawfully seized in the heat of battle)
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Using a slave to aid a rebellion was conceived of as analogous to using a ship to conduct piracy: the ship was simply forfeit. Even if the owner was innocent and the ship was stolen! (This is the origin of asset forfeiture)
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