Pastors Propose Historic Markers Detailing Slave Auctions and Keeping Confederate Statue Too

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Here's a solution to the Confederate monuments that MAY work!!!:

"Now, Riggs has come to a different solution. “Instead of being divisive and trying to take things down, why can’t we put some things up to tell a side of the story that hasn’t been told before?” he asked.


-During a packed work session at City Hall on Tuesday night, a group of local pastors laid out their plans to construct historical markers to the lesser told side of the Civil War in Franklin.

Pastor Kevin Riggs of Franklin Community Church noted the recent one-year anniversary of the Unite the Right rally and deaths in Charlottesville.

“We’re a lot like Charlottesville in a lot of ways,” he said. If anything like that ever did happen in Franklin, “Pastors would be the first in the city to come together.”

“Instead of waiting for something bad to happen, could we do something positive and not let that happen,” Riggs continued.

The pastors suggested four historical markers around the square to “help tell a fuller story of the Civil War.”

REST OF THE STORY/PHOTOS HERE:
https://brentwoodhomepage.com/frank...ling-slave-auctions-us-colored-troop-efforts/
 
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