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lees1975

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2. Museums would be a good place for them
Tue Jul 13, 2021, 03:28 PM
Jul 2021

The exhibits should explain that the statues were put up in the post-reconstruction period when resentment of the defeat of the Confederacy was running high and people were angry that the US government had sided with the freed slaves when it came to distributing confiscated property and protecting rights. The statues of Confederate military and government leaders, schools, buildings and streets named after them were all part of the whitewashing of the Confederacy and a re-writing of history and that record needs to be set straight. Museums are a good place to start. Beyond that, every American student should have a one year long course on slavery, the Civil War and everything leading up to it.

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