Then there's this map of slavery's geographic distribution. Lincoln loved this map so much, the famous portrait of him & his Cabinet on the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation shows the map propped by a chair.pic.twitter.com/NdA17JKIeg
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Then there's this map of slavery's geographic distribution. Lincoln loved this map so much, the famous portrait of him & his Cabinet on the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation shows the map propped by a chair.pic.twitter.com/NdA17JKIeg
More on the mapping of freedom & slavery here: http://www.mappingthenation.com/index.php/chapter/index/4 …
The Confederacy has been commemorated for many reasons, not all of them bad. What needs to end is not all memory of gallant Southern soldiery & whatnot, but the downplaying of what the Confederate cause actually stood for. The best remedy for that is unblinking truth.
Much like Germany commemorates Dacau and such. They don’t celebrate Nazi Germany, but they do want folks to remember how awful it was.
No, not like that. Maybe if there was an effort to preserve the memory of SS and Nazi "gallantry."
Point taken. We can blame Woodrow Wilson for a lot of the the confederacy fetishism, but I am not a fan of erasing history that is uncomfortable.
I'm not in favor of erasing history either, but in the South there has been a lot of fake history taught around the Confederacy. And Confederate monuments erected during Jim Crow outside courthouses should come down.
My understanding, as a Midwesterner moving to Texas as a teenager, is that most of the confederate statues (at least in Texas) were erected during the presidency of FDR (WPA) and Woodrow Wilson. They were not contemporary to the civil war era.
Yes, or right after the turn of the century in other cases. Speakers at the monument dedications spoke at length, without fail, about white supremacy.
I was just musing about why 40-70 years after the civil war, all of these generals were being commerated. But now 40-70 years after WWII, Korea, and Vietnam, we aren’t commerating Chesty Puller, Eisenhower, Patton, etc.
50 years after WWII was the 1990s. The 1990s were huge on WWII commemoration: Private Ryan, Brokaw's Greatest Generation book, the WWII memorial.
True. But none of the statues. Maybe statues are an antiquated thing.
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