The Lampshade by Mark Jacobson

Author:Mark Jacobson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-12-08T16:00:00+00:00

By the time I got to Lee Circle I was dripping wet. Robert E. Lee was there, or rather a bronze twelve-foot-tall likeness of the Confederate general, built in 1884. Perched atop a sixty-foot stone column, Lee stood ramrod straight in the downpour, arms crossed, left foot forward, water pouring off the brim of his hat.

It has never been easy to get used to these monuments found throughout the American South celebrating those who fought and died to preserve the “peculiar institution” of slavery. In New Orleans, onetime home to the nation’s largest slave market, an ornate tribute to Confederate president Jefferson Davis sits at the intersection of Canal Street and the Jefferson Davis Parkway. Over by City Park, on a horse, is General P. G. T. Beauregard (from St. Bernard Parish), who ordered the first shots on Fort Sumter that started the war.

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