Donald Trump's administration is working to honor Confederates who aimed to preserve slavery, as seen in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's promotion of the Moses Ezekiel monument. This monument is portrayed as enhancing national healing, yet it symbolizes a sanitization and revision of Civil War history. It presents a mythologized vision of the Confederacy, including depictions of slavery that obscure its horrors. The monument embodies the so-called 'Lost Cause' narrative, promoting a romanticized view of the South that has historically fueled backlash against civil rights advancements for African Americans.
The elaborately designed monument offers a nostalgic, mythologized vision of the Confederacy, including highly sanitized depictions of slavery.
An enslaved woman depicted as a 'Mammy,' holding the infant child of a white officer, and an enslaved man following his owner to war.
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