Monuments should go to scrap heap, Baptist seminary professor says

[struggle4progress]

BY MARTHA QUILLIN
SEPTEMBER 22, 2017 1:08 PM

... "I just find it strange to venerate someone who waged war against our country," Brent J. Aucoin said in a podcast shared Monday by Southeastern Baptist Theological Society, where Aucoin is a history professor and associate dean of the College for Academic Affairs ...

At the outset of the podcast, Aucoin talks about the origins of the Civil War, citing the documents published at the time by delegates from the states that seceded from the Union, starting with South Carolina. Its secession delegates defined states as "slaveholding" and "non-slaveholding," and said that .. states had broken the contract of the union of the United States by refusing to capture and return runaway slaves ...

Aucoin quotes from the documents’ assertions of the "undeniable truth" that Africans were an inferior race.

Aucoin goes on to talk about the two periods during which most of the extant monuments to the Confederacy were erected – from the 1890s to the 1910s, and again during the 1950s and ’60s – when social and political gains being made by African Americans met resistance from whites ...

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[Judi Lynn]

1. It takes courage for a man identified with fundies to speak the truth. Hooray, Brent J. Aucoin. n/t