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celebrates slavery and the confederacy. wore here to celebrate the taking down of the jefferson davis statue here in new orleans, tonight. these were all jim crow era statues meant to emphasize that white people are in control. is there any value in there is no value in keeping those statues. there is value in remembering what the statutes were put up for. what do you say to the people across the street marching with flags. i don t say nothing. they are not on my radar. they are unredeemable. we pray that those attacking our heritage may repent of their sins. we pray oh, lord that truth of history would triumph. i feel like the country never really reunified after the war in a way that included all of its citizens, right. maybe taking down these statues
yeah. i think he probably was. what stood out to you in the arguments? so our article was presented by alexander stevens in atlanta, georgia. not once does he talk about property and slavery and what the war is really about, what they re fighting for. other voices? i know there seems to be a common idea that the civil war was totally about slavery. i m going to disagree with that. the south did want to leave the union because of slavery, but the issue of the civil war was keeping the south in the union. so slavery isn t like the entire issue. pushback? comments? we will continue tomorrow. you are a thinker. that is for sure. the wedge is the slavery issue, right? i think we agree on that.
to introduce myself, my name is rachel boynton. this is nelson walker. we are in pen accident documentary filmmakers. we made a film about the civil war. we re going to places with a deep connection to this history. there s a lot more coming. what made you choose the civil war and reconstruction? well, you know, america is kind of like a big family that tore us apart during the several war, and in order to make peace, we told ourselves a certain story about it. and for a long time, we had trouble telling the difference between that story and the truth. you can ask me anything you want. what did you want to do when
yeah. that s probably the biggest one. it s like you re not getting fully seen. right. yeah. reconstruction has been the most contested question in america s historical memory. reconstruction is a period of time that begins immediately after the war, 10 to 12 years when america had to truly reinvent itself. 14th amendment puts equal protection of the law into the u.s. constitution, and the right to vote for black men in the 50s was a constitutional and legal revolution, and some black spokesmen by the 1890s and turn