Were The Confederates Traitors?

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  1. Dwight Ward

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    https://www.newyorker.com/culture/c...th-of-the-lost-cause?utm_source=pocket-newtab

    Actually this article seems not to answer the question directly, but it has insights into the furor over statues of Confederates. It has this prophetic passage about events of 1890:
    "And John Mitchell, the editor of the Richmond Planet, the city’s black newspaper, wrote that those who wore the “clinking chains of slavery” had a perfect right to denounce the spectacle of the unveiling and all that lay behind it. Black men, Mitchell said, helped “put up the Lee Monument, and should the time come will be there to take it down.”
     
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