Bob Jacobson
Aug 28, 2017 · 1 min read

The statues erected in America were not intended to educate about the slave trade. They were intended to glorify the insurrection and why it occurred (the defense of slave-states’ “rights” to secede, thus to defy the Constitution). Nor do they represent “history,” unless you mean the history of the Lost Cause advocates and those who believe slavery was in some way ahistorical. The statues pervert history.

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