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Matt Baldwin@thisbrokenwheel.bsky.social |
Yes, correct. (Also Stevens deserves to be a bigger figure in the general pantheon of American heroes, if we're going to have such a thing.)
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Alex Cruikshanks
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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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