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| "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
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The Douglass Institute of Government
Monuments
of Folly
Lecture Series
Asa Gordon
Founder & Executive Director
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Savannah State University
(912) 353-3075
February 19th-23rd, 2001
