The Hate That Remains, a Year After Charleston

In February, 1896, the former Confederate General Bradley T. Johnson addressed the Ladies Memorial Association of Richmond, Virginia, which was dedicating the former White House of the Confederacy as the “treasure house of Confederate history and relics.” Historian David Blight recounts the moment in “Race and Reunion,” his history, published in 2001, of the ways the Civil War has been remembered. Blight writes, “Johnson boldly declared that the ‘South did not make war in defense of slavery; slavery was only the incident, the point attacked.’ And the attack had been that of a ‘free mobocracy of the North’ against a ‘slave democracy of the South.’ ”

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