Is It Appropriate for Cities/States to Publicly Display Monuments to The Confederacy?

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It is not appropriate for cities and states to erect monuments to the Confederacy. This is

because the monuments are a symbol of white supremacy and the sad history of slavery. Most of

the monuments were erected before the Civil War. Some were set up amid the era of civil rights

around 1960s, which occurred simultaneously with the centennial of the war. However, most of

the monuments were established before World War I. The monuments were meant to represent

the Southern cause in dominating the Civil War as fair and slavery as a normal business. They

were basically symbolism of the supremacy of the whites.

One instance that sparked an intense stance against the monuments is the killing of the

African Americans at Mother Emanuel, the historic church located in Charleston. The South

Carolina incident occurred in 2015 and nine of the Americans lost their lives. As a result, this

initiated nationwide revolt to demolish Confederate flags and monuments, and to change the

name of roads, parks, schools, and other government institutions that support the Confederacy.1

However, to this date, a great number of the emblems are still in place.

Most of the Confederacy monuments are shielded by federal laws. Others are protected

by civic authorities that are reluctant to act when white Southerners’ extremists racially attack a

sect of coloured members of society. The Southern supremacists re still blinded by the revisionist

representation that the monuments offer.

One of the most intriguing, yet controversial, monuments are the ones that represent

loyal-slave markers. They seem to have the intent of representing the white southerners’ belief of

a sugar-coated story of how it used to be2. These loyal-slave markers were made in the 1930s as

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Seabrook, Lochlainn. 2018. Confederate Monuments: Why Every American Should
Honor Confederate Soldiers and Their Memorials.
2. Ibid. 67
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symbol of anti-black proclamations again black rights as equal men. Even with African-

American strengthening battles, faithful slave landmarks broadcast the possibility that

subjugation had been the normal situation. Devoted slave markers additionally cautioned

coloured people attempting to upset the racial-standing framework in the late-nineteenth and mid

twentieth hundred of years that they took a chance with the equivalent fierce savagery that had

maintained racial control during servitude. Actually, coloured insubordination had showed in

255 slave uprisings, in excess of 101,000 departures by means of the Underground Railroad, and

thousands more got away from slaves’ joining the Union Army before subjection was annulled in

18653.

Confederate theological rationalists raised faithful slave landmarks to scratch out that

proof of coloured insubordination. They memorialized a story that undercut the heap ways that

African Americans stood up to. It was a wellspring of shame for slaveholders that they needed to

depend on the utilization of beast power to keep subjugated individuals in line, in such a case

that they were really content, for what reason would there be a requirement for whipping?

Faithful slave stories and landmarks shrouded that history4. They calmed the awareness of those

individuals who accepted bondage was a real framework, and vindicated the culpability of the

individuals who took part in and profited by the arrangement of servitude. Be that as it may, the

most harming work the fantasy did was to make a generalization of African-American

individuals as substance with their conditions—and subsequently complicit in their own

3. Sedore, Timothy Stephen. 2011. An illustrated guide to Virginia’s Confederate

monuments. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.

4. Ibid. 5
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subjugation. That is one of numerous reasons we don’t see Confederate landmarks to Nat

Turner’s revolt or other significant uprisings that occurred.

For white Southerners managing the truth of Civil War rout and [black] liberation, the

devoted slave story turns into an approach to push ahead, to assemble the pieces back, to start the

way toward assembling an arrangement of racial domination—particularly after Reconstruction

—that spots coloured Southerners, previous slaves, into a subordinate situation, by the turn of the

twentieth century, a developing coloured populace was starting to push all the more forcefully

for social equality5. Thinking back on the prior to the war time frame—when race relations were,

according to white Southerners, quiet—they had the option to abstain from managing and

reacting to snapshots of racial turmoil decades after the war.

Maybe no landmark all the more clearly endeavours to degenerate both history and

profound quality than the Heyward Shepherd marker. Some asserted that it was demonstrate that

the individuals of the South who claimed slaves esteemed and regarded their great characteristics

as nobody else ever did or will do. Unexpectedly, Heywood Shepherd, the main coincidental

setback of Brown’s bombed strike, wasn’t oppressed6. A dad of five, Shepherd was a free

coloured man who functioned as a watchman on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Racial

oppressor in any case pessimistically exploited Shepherd’s passing to serve their own

supremacist closes7. The engraving on the six-foot-tall stone landmark bearing Shepherd’s name

depicts him as “representing the character and steadfastness of thousands of Negroes who, under

5. Landrieu, Mitch. 2019. In the shadow of statues: a white southerner confronts history.
6. Ibid. 89
7. Ibid. 16
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numerous enticements all through ensuing long stretches of war, so acted that no stain was left

upon a record which is the impossible to miss legacy of the American individuals, and an

everlasting tribute to the best in the two races. At the devotion function for the landmark, racial

oppressor multiplied down, expressing that the marker remembers the faithfulness, boldness, and

benevolence of Heyward Shepherd and a huge number of others of his race who might, similar to

him, have endured passing as opposed to sell out their lords.

The Confederate belief system prospered a long ways past the land limits of the South, as

prove by the quantity of faithful slave landmarks north of the previous slaveholding states.2

Bicknell, an individual from one of Barrington, Rhode Island’s most unmistakable white families

and biggest enslavers of African Americans, in 1903 raised a devoted slave landmark in Princes

Hill Burial Ground8. The stone’s bronze plaque, presently green with age, declares the marker’s

commitment to the slaves and their relatives who reliably served Barrington families.

In conclusion, it would be a troublesome issue to choose if white enslavers or coloured

oppressed people had been the more noteworthy gainer or failure from coloured asset

subjugation. Certain it is that along numerous lines the negro race has been edified and profited

by the relationship. No other mediocre race on the essence of the globe could have been brought

through the encounters of three-hundred years of asset subjugation with so extraordinary

obligation thus little misfortunes on the two sides of the record. Therefore, the Confederacy

monuments should not be set up in public places as they have a far deeper and bloodier

representation than their beautiful appearance. It is time to create new history and not clench on

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Kytle, Ethan J., and Blain Roberts. 2018. Denmark Vesey’s garden: slavery and memory

in the cradle of the Confederacy. New York: The New Press.

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past historical backdrops simply because they make you and your people seem superior that

others. We are all equal.

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Bibliography

Kytle, Ethan J., and Blain Roberts. 2018. Denmark Vesey’s garden: slavery and memory in the

cradle of the Confederacy. New York: The New Press.

Landrieu, Mitch. 2019. In the shadow of statues: a white southerner confronts history.

Seabrook, Lochlainn. 2018. Confederate Monuments: Why Every American Should Honor

Confederate Soldiers and Their Memorials.

Sedore, Timothy Stephen. 2011. An illustrated guide to Virginia’s Confederate monuments.

Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press.