If Civil War monuments are taken to public museums and parks, educational text must accompany the statues concerning historical events leading up the Civil War and its aftermath America is still in chaos over. State rights do not include the right to capture human beings and hold them as slaves for a lifetime. This was a grandiose ruse or code that gave license to enslave in order to have free labor.
Slavery was in the North as well as the South. However, North America with shorter growing seasons had truck farms as well as a sparse amount of plantations. In my research for A Guidebook To Historic Western Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh Press, I documented the huge stone mansion on the Isaac Meason historic Christoper Gist Plantation. Built in 1802, this building still retains its formal stone slave quarters on both sides of the building.
Civil War monuments are not needed on public squares which remind American Africans and American Indians who were the victims physically. Their descendants still are plagued by bad ideologies that psychologically torture them. Some places in the United States warn American Africans that it is unsafe for them to be there. All citizens must understand the deeply-conditioned gravity of slavery, the first being prisoners of war. Then came the evil of contrived human bondage. The aftermath is now still a warped problem with racism lingering as the last remnants of a sick society. But we have come a long way, even though it as slow as molasses in cold weather.
American slavery still smolders as tens of thousands so-called "white" men think the are better than anyone as even drive vehicles into crowds of innocent people by modern-day use of vehicles as missile–.
The American Civil War divided people even more as racial flames still are fanned by winds of modern times. Let's get over this evil satanic minxzsf and enjoy life as long as we can
World Enlightened News, W.E.N.
Helene Smith, author of essays on color-coding human beings and book on the bravery of Harriet Trumpet, award-winning Aramenta America's Most Unsung Civil War General
