Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social

There's a lot rightly written about the whole Jim Crow state-funded projects of building public Confederate statues and memorials, but the flipside is that the few to figures like Stevens and John Brown were overwhelmingly private projects paid for by local Black communities as acts of gratitude.

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Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:05 UTC

Yup, and I really wish that was more broadly known and better integrated into our general history education. I grew up with the "madman" canard about Brown and didn't even learn Stevens's name until I was in my 20s.

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