Afro-Confederates^*
Southern Fantasies and Historical Myths

"Monuments of Folly: 

...Every monument built in memory of the Confederacy will perpetuate that which it would be more creditable in the actors to desire to have forgotten. .... If it is not to reawaken the conflict, by cultivating hatred against the Government, that these monuments are built, there is little or no purpose in their erection. Monuments to the "lost cause" will prove monuments of folly, both in the memories of wicked rebellion which they must necessarily perpetuate, and in the failure to accomplish the particular purpose had in view by those who build them. It is a needless record of stupidity and wrong."
-Frederick Douglass, New National Era, Dec. 1, 1870

"The Propaganda of History:

How the facts of American history have in the last half century been falsified because the nation was ashamed. The South was ashamed because it fought to perpetuate human slavery. The North was ashamed because it had to call in the black men to save the Union, abolish slavery and establish democracy."
-W.E.B. Du Bois, Black Reconstruction in America, (1935).
 
• In 1911, the United Confederate Veterans resolved that "every textbook on history and literature in Southern schools should be tested " against Mildred L. Rutherford's A Mearuring Rod for Text-Books. This small primer called for rejection of any text that, among other things, "says the South fought to hold her slaves" or "speaks of the slaveholder of the South as cruel or unjust to his slaves." Librarians were enjoined to inscribe on the title page of any book not measuring up to A Mearuring Rod the words "Unjust to the South."

"History on Trial : Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past",
by Gary B. Nash, Charlotte Crabtree, and Ross E. Dunn.,
Alfred A. Knopf New York 1997,p.20 .
 
• ... During the past quarter century a good many Americans have recognized that omissions and distortions in race relations history served a purpose. The presentation of an altered view of the past made the injustices of the present seem more acceptable. ...When it suits us to break a promise, we do not merely allow the memory of the obligation to fade; we even erase the recollection of the event or sentiment that prompted it.

-Howard N. Meyer, Preface-1984 Edition,
"Army Life in a Black Regiment", Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

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