Fredrick Douglass Worries that the Role of USCT Would Be Forgotten

[PatYoung]

I have an article on the scholarly Emerging Civil War site about Frederick Douglass after the Civil War. Douglass saw that the rewriting of the history of the Civil War in favor of the Confederacy erased the role of African Americans in reuniting the country and allowed Blacks to be marginalized in American memory of the conflict. If Robert E. Lee could be a national hero, what of the people he fought to keep slaves?

Echoes of Reconstruction: Challenges for Frederick Douglass Post-War: Black Equality & the Memory of Lee - Emerging Civil War

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[Matt McKeon]

I have an article on the scholarly Emerging Civil War site about Frederick Douglass after the Civil War. Douglass saw that the rewriting of the history of the Civil War in favor of the Confederacy erased the role of African Americans in reuniting the country and allowed Blacks to be marginalized in American memory of the conflict. If Robert E. Lee could be a national hero, what of the people he fought to keep slaves?

Echoes of Reconstruction: Challenges for Frederick Douglass Post-War: Black Equality & the Memory of Lee - Emerging Civil War

ECW welcomes back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog I sometimes hear comedians joke that Black History Month, celebrated annually in February, is during the shortest month of the year. Rather than being emblematic of a slight, February was chosen by the outstanding African...

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I remember his criticism of the veneration of Robert E. Lee.

 

[Leftyhunter]

I have an article on the scholarly Emerging Civil War site about Frederick Douglass after the Civil War. Douglass saw that the rewriting of the history of the Civil War in favor of the Confederacy erased the role of African Americans in reuniting the country and allowed Blacks to be marginalized in American memory of the conflict. If Robert E. Lee could be a national hero, what of the people he fought to keep slaves?

Echoes of Reconstruction: Challenges for Frederick Douglass Post-War: Black Equality & the Memory of Lee - Emerging Civil War

ECW welcomes back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog I sometimes hear comedians joke that Black History Month, celebrated annually in February, is during the shortest month of the year. Rather than being emblematic of a slight, February was chosen by the outstanding African...

emergingcivilwar.com

Douglas was absolutely right as most Americans were clueless about the USCT until the movie Glory and that movie has faded a bit after plus thirty years. The Confederate's lost the war but won the peace until 1964 and thereafter but slowly and their descendents are still able to somewhat restrict voting rights to this day and are renewing their efforts after the debacle in Georgia.
Isn't this the same Douglas that Trump said is still alive and fought with George Washington to defend American Airports in the Revolutionary War?
Leftyhunter

 

[rittmeister]

Isn't this the same Douglas that Trump said is still alive and fought with George Washington to defend American Airports in the Revolutionary War?
Leftyhunter

nearly correct: the minutemen took the british airports

 

[O' Be Joyful]

nearly correct: the minutemen took the british airports View attachment 5292

The Minute-men were on time.

 

[O' Be Joyful]

btw, sorry for intruding @PatYoung but I could not resist.


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