Fort Mill SC Confederate monument to slaves
BY ANDREW DYS
... Fort Mill has a monument in its Confederate Park dedicated to slaves. "Faithful slaves" to the Confederacy, the monument states ...
Descendants of slaves in the Fort Mill area say that monument should stay right where it is ...
Harris said he sees the monument as unique to blacks who were slaves and survived enslavement. That doesn’t make the Confederate cause of trying to keep slavery is any more tolerable, Harris said. He said black people who were part of the Confederate service – as cooks, servants and soldiers – did so out of fear of retaliation or retribution from their masters, and were ordered to do so because they were not free.
"I am proud that my great-grandfather survived it," said Harris, 53, who now lives in northern Virginia not far from Charlottesville. "I am not embarrassed" ...
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