Frederick Douglass Worried After the Civil War that the Role of Black Soldiers Would be Forgotten in Favor of Confederate "Heroes"

Pat Young

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I have an article on the scholarly Emerging Civil War site about Frederick Douglass after the Civil War. Douglass saw that the rewriting of the history of the Civil War in favor of the Confederacy erased the role of African Americans in reuniting the country and allowed Blacks to be marginalized in American memory of the conflict. If Robert E. Lee could be a national hero, what of the people he fought to keep slaves?
 
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