He Escaped Slavery and Became a Civil War Hero. Now, Robert Smalls Is Getting a Statue in South Carolina | Smithsonian
He Escaped Slavery and Became a Civil War Hero. Now, Robert Smalls Is Getting a Statue in South Carolina | Smithsonian
A special committee has until January 15 to finalize the design, location and funding for a monument that will be erected on the lawn of the South Carolina State House
Chock one up for the right thing... But this was still surprising:
Today, the 22-acre lawn of the South Carolina State House remains “dominated by memorials to the Confederacy,” writes the Post and Courier’s Nick Reynolds. They include a statue of Wade Hampton, an enslaver and Confederate general; an obelisk dedicated to Confederate veterans; a statue of J. Marion Sims, the white gynecologist who operated on enslaved women without pain relief or consent; and others. A marble copy of the Articles of Secession hangs in the State House lobby.
I mean I knew that South Carolina still had a lot of bullshit on display and bitterness about losing, but Jesus Christ. They still have the Articles of Secession on display in the State House? WTF.
Doesn't matter. No one reads them. I constantly run into people that say the Civil War wasn't about slavery. Then I ask them to read the Ordinances of Secession from each state that wrote one up and count the number of times slavery is mentioned as the reason they were splitting. Of course I never hear from them again because either they can't admit they never read them or can't admit after reading them that slavery was explicitly the cause listed in every single one.
For the record the South Carolina one has slavery mentioned 12 times.
So it will sit there and collect dust because no one is going read it.