Having read Freeman's Robert E Lee this article is indeed not easy reading.
Having read Freeman's Robert E Lee this article is indeed not easy reading.
Having had ancestors, Alabamians, who fought against Lee's army, I didn't grow up hearing him lionized. Quite the contrary...Having read Freeman's Robert E Lee this article is indeed not easy reading.
My grandfather more or less concluded that the Civil War was a result of the fore father's inability to solve the issue of slavery while writing the Constitution, and anybody that says the war wasn't about slavery might as well try defending the Nazis by saying that the party was mostly a party based around peacefully retaking lost territory and that Hitler's inner circle were just the exception. My grandfather was probably more sympathetic to the southern soldier than any cog in the war because they were led to war on a lie, but he never painted the South as on the right side of history even though most of his ancestors were CSA.Having had ancestors, Alabamians, who fought against Lee's army, I didn't grow up hearing him lionized. Quite the contrary...
A bright man. That's also the accepted interpretation in every history class I've ever taken. Although most of those were up in New England, so I'm certain TW would stomp his feet and shout bias while reciting talking points from the Confederate Catechism.My grandfather more or less concluded that the Civil War was a result of the fore father's inability to solve the issue of slavery while writing the Constitution
We proceed into any of these discussions wanting to avoid the appearance of defending slavery in any way. I would say however the article would lead us to understand that Lee was at his plantation conducting these affairs for his adult life when indeed his 32 years in the US Army included the Mexican War and the assault on Chapultepec, years as an engineer maintaining the Mississippi River waterway, serving as Superintendent of West Point and many other assignments. The article portrays a much different man than that.Having had ancestors, Alabamians, who fought against Lee's army, I didn't grow up hearing him lionized. Quite the contrary...
I attended Robert E Lee school fourth through eighth grades in Fayetteville, TN so I received the full canonization. I’d like to think the kindly gentleman who fought for his beloved Virginia is true but suspect all slave owners justified the institution to satisfy their own conscience.Having had ancestors, Alabamians, who fought against Lee's army, I didn't grow up hearing him lionized. Quite the contrary...
Lee Montgomery and Jeff Davis are still in montgomeryI attended Robert E Lee school fourth through eighth grades in Fayetteville, TN so I received the full canonization. I’d like to think the kindly gentleman who fought for his beloved Virginia is true but suspect all slave owners justified the institution to satisfy their own conscience.
There used to be a lot of Lee schools in the South. I don’t know of any in west Tennessee. Is there still aLee High School in South Huntsville?
There is in NE HSV and it's a magnet school for the arts, with a large black percentage of black enrollment. I suppose you could say it's named after the general, but indirectly. The old Lee Highway, named after the general, ran in front of it and it was named for the road, so I don't think you could say it was named for the general...I attended Robert E Lee school fourth through eighth grades in Fayetteville, TN so I received the full canonization. I’d like to think the kindly gentleman who fought for his beloved Virginia is true but suspect all slave owners justified the institution to satisfy their own conscience.
There used to be a lot of Lee schools in the South. I don’t know of any in west Tennessee. Is there still aLee High School in South Huntsville?
The times are changing, and so is the marble. Arkansas is leaving behind statues of the old guard and sending a few new faces to the U.S. Capitol.
Civil rights icon Daisy Gatson Bates and musician Johnny Cash will join the Statuary Hall collection in D.C., replacing 19th-century attorney Uriah Milton Rose and statesman James Paul Clarke. The governor of Arkansas, Asa Hutchinson, made the plan official by signing a bill last week.
By their mores, they should stop playing baseball since the Yankees were a segregated team at the same time.And now Kate Smith and her iconic rendition of God Bless America are out. Someone found a couple songs she recorded in the 1930s (including one also recorded by civil rights activist Paul Robeson) that contained lyrics that are considered offensive.
https://www.foxnews.com/sports/philadelphia-flyers-cover-god-bless-america-singer-over-racist-songs
I get the outrage over the Confederate statues, but this is a bit overboard.
I've been meaning to ask you why you seem so convinced Trump will not run again...TNN (The New Normal).......:rolleye2:
Let's take the conversation to a more appropriate thread:I've been meaning to ask you why you seem so convinced Trump will not run again...
If the U.S. Constitution had included a clause along the lines of the eventual XIII Amendment ("Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."), then there would not have been a United States as we know it. Georgia and South Carolina would certainly have declined to ratify such a constitution. (at the Philadelphia Convention, Gouverneur Morris, on July 11, 17817 said he "did not believe those (southern) States would ever confederate on terms that would deprive them of [the slave] trade." (Virginia, had already abolished the transatlantic slave trade by statute, if the Constitution proposed the abolition of slavery per se, the Commonwealth would have stood apart as well.) If the extension of the slave trade until 1807 had not been included, Rhode Island and perhaps Massachusetts might have declined. (On August 22, 1787 George Mason "lamented that some of our [North]Eastern brethren had from a lust of gain embarked in this nefarious [slave] traffic."Until 1807, the vast majority of the poor Africans dragged to America did so in American (i.e. New England) bottoms.My grandfather more or less concluded that the Civil War was a result of the fore father's inability to solve the issue of slavery while writing the Constitution
That is really interesting. Northerners, then as now, have as little interest in airing their dirty laundry as southerners did and do (which is why you heae some southerners say the war had nothing to do with slavery, which is simply not born out by the facts).A bright man. That's also the accepted interpretation in every history class I've ever taken. Although most of those were up in New England.
funny how that works.I find it interesting that you invoke the words of Lincoln to argue that the North had no care to free slaves. Yet when presented with the words of Confederate leaders claiming the preservation of slavery was, in large part, the impetus behind their rebellion, you insist that their words have no meaning.