Frederick Douglass: “On Remembering the Civil War” Speech

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Frederick Douglass:“On Remembering the Civil War”Speech
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By 1878, the meaning of the Civil War was rapidly changing. Ceremonies held on Decoration Day (later called Memorial Day) to honor fallen soldiers were now celebrating the Confederate as well as the Union army. Northerners turned from the project of emancipation, citizenship, and racial equality for emancipated African Americans to an explicit embrace of former Confederates and at least an implicit alignment with southern policies of disfranchisement and white supremacy.

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