The brilliant fighting of black troops have ensured the salvation of the union. The fact that africanamerican soldiers had defeated lee lent additional symbolic meaning to the surrender for me and his army of Northern Virginia typified the ice of the u. S. Ct slaveholding elites and its racial superiority. Thomas Morris Chester confederate capitulation was especially sweet cousins are reviewed to the first families of virginia who he do after the virginians. In short, men such as williams and chester made and sustained the bold claim that defeat u. S. Army africanamerican troops have dealt a death blow to all that army stood for, including favorite old. They insisted not only the union armies at jury emanated from superior virtue of the black troops in particular exemplified by virtue. Most important, africanamerican soldiers interpretations of the surrender of described the civil rights message into the mud animist terms of the sprecher, emphasizing the promise of appomattox, depicted
Understand, what is the question . So let me answer. Its a very simple answer. First of all of course as you can understand i want us to reach an agreement but i think we have to reach out in a sensible realistic way. One of the problems is that the piece thinking and peace concept will not renew in 20 years. This is what i think we need fresh thinking. You will not trite to a 25yearold chevy. So i think its time to thank fresh and to describe it in just a sentence. When israelis open their hearts and decided to go to peace in 1993 the result was a waive of terror and buses exploding in central jerusalem. When israelis took a giant step forward and the Peace Agreement in 2000 the result was the worst suicide bombing terror offensive ever. When the israelis opened their hearts the third time and we withdrew from the gaza strip and the result was rockets coming in life in southern jerusalem must awful. It is understandable why middleoftheroad realistic wellmeaning israelis are afraid the
Knowing theres talented leaders in the room. Would you want to revive that in some way . Something that would fit on a billboard . I mean, i think again the myth that the gentlemans agreement between grant and lee is a compelling one and not one that doesnt have merit. It was a great achievement for these two men to end the war. I would like to say parent radically, sometimes people these days well talk about a long civil war and appomattox didnt win the war. Effectively, appomattox ends the civil war. There are surrenders to come. Yes armies in the field, but what happened after appomattox is not going to revive hopes were confederate independence. They die here at appomattox. It is the effective end of the civil war and a great achievement to end the war. This notion of a narrative about a gentlemans agreement exists from the very start and even some of these editors like really who were arguing about the terms. Theres an air selfcongratulation that america ended at civil war and awa
The food, its not the best. But youre there. We conduct nonviolent workshops. We went bang songs. So old pharaoh to let my people go. Coetzee silas, bound in jail. No money to go in that bail. But it was there that we became a circle of trust, a band of brothers and sisters. Guest the cocacola policy considered south africa they were influenced to change the plight of things in south africa with another major corporation. Host washington please go ahead with your question or comment for representative lewis. Guest . Caller thanks for cspan. I watch daily and love it. Thank you, congress then lewis for your endurance and your hard work to build a more Perfect Union. I am a little nervous. The conservative movement i was watching bill moore the other day and they had a guy on there that was a part of the tea party and they said that they were winning. The conservative movement has been winning by using narratives that pull this country further and further to the right. Arent the socalled
We look forward to seeing you tomorrow. Next, Elizabeth Varon recalls robert e. Lees surrender to the ulysses s. Grant led union forces said the mclean house on october 9th 101865. This is about 45 minutes. [applause] thank you so much for that very, very kind introduction. Its a pleasure to be here. Property surrendered u. S. Grant in 1865 which is for most americans a familiar tableau. The two men met your mama Central Virginia at appomattox courthouse. Lee wore a fine dress uniform and vow gentility of the southeasterly. Create test crack early and represented the hardscrabble farmers and wage earners had molded in to so formidable a fighting machine. After awkwardly exchanging pleasantries about service in the mexican war, the two men agree to the surrender terms and ended the civil war. In essence, grants term salve for the army of north virginia on there arent. The promise that they would never again take up arms against the United States. Great magnanimity in this relates to the