******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. *****************************************************************
Mark wrote: 'Meanwhile, they were putting up statues to the idols of the master class that tried to destroy a nation when they couldn't rule it anywhere. It puts a whole new light on what "Reconstruction" meant and never meant.' Well said, Mark. Here in Oz, there is a campaign against the statues and monuments of some of the worst of the colonists. There is a special focus on the statue of Captain Cook and the claim that he "discovered" Australia. That is as claim which is deeply offensive to the First Nations people who have been here for around 60k years. There are other statues that are controversial as well. My good friend the Indigenous activist and scholar Professor Gracelyn Smallwood, who is from Townsville, has written about the role of the man the city was named after Robert Towns (1794-1873). He was part of the slave trade in South Sea Islanders, where Islanders were kidnapped to work in the Queensland sugar cane fields. There are other villains of course, who have been honored similarly. comradely Gary On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 12:32 PM, Mark Lause via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > One of the most frustratingly neglected chapters of the Second American > Revolution was the story of the Richmond Underground, the hundreds of > active Unionists in the Confederate capital, black and white, who did > everything they could to sabotage the war effort. Before and after > Fredericksburg, Lee's army was badly nobbled by not getting supplies on > schedule. The railroad operators and suppliers regularly misdirected that > kind of freight. Elizabeth Van Lew organized a circle of informants that > reached into the War Department and Mary Bowser, a former slave in her > parents household--all manumitted years before--came back to take a > position working for Jefferson Davis in the Confederate White House. She > smuggled information out through the baker who made daily deliveries, > Thomas McNiven. > > What's particularly significant about these people is that they were on the > winning side and we know so little about them. After the war, the > government brought Van Lew (and surely others) to Washington to remove the > documentation on their activities from the records, because of fear of > reprisals. > > Meanwhile, they were putting up statues to the idols of the master class > that tried to destroy a nation when they couldn't rule it anywhere. > > It puts a whole new light on what "Reconstruction" meant and never meant. > > ML > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/gary. > maclennan1%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
