Historian: See past with an open mind

[struggle4progress]

Posted: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 12:00 am
BY CLINT SCHEMMER/THE FREE LANCE-STAR

... when people say Confederate civilians, “Who do we mean?” Hennessy asked ... Then he pointed to the site of Harrison House, Lee’s headquarters ... It was also home to 11 enslaved people, including Joseph F. Walker. What happened there in battle was recorded .. but by Walker, who was 9 ... “My mother’s house was pulled down to make breastworks, and the yard and garden were used as a burying ground,” he said ... For Joseph Walker, freedom meant an otherwise impossible life of note. He became a deacon at Shiloh Baptist Church (New Site) and helped start a high school for African–Americans ...

http://www.fredericksburg.com/features/history/historian-see-past-with-an-open-mind/article_4f1c0cc9-c15d-5f4b-89d8-1fd9db071f34.html

[bemildred]

1. I have noticed that the winners always seem to have been right all along.

And most of them never question that restrospectively either. It's just like in the movies, if you are the good guy, you win.

[Nitram]

2. bemildred, that's a disingenuous way to defend southern states' secession in defense of slavery.

What aspects of our history books do you believe are based on lies the victors in that war promulgated?

[bemildred]

3. Come, come Martin, I said nothing about the South.

The South lost because they were a bunch of losers, they were wrong because they were slavers. What is wrong with history is that it so little shows those facts in a candid light, and we still swallow the racist narrative, twaddle though it is easily shown to be, whole.

[Nitram]

4. You referred to the winners, who must be the North.

Ergo, the losers are the South. Saying you said nothing about the south is a legalistic argument if I ever saw one. But I'll bite, which parts of the racist narrative are twaddle?