![]() ![]() ![]() I learned that the Civil War wasn't about white people hating black people (although there were quite a few whites who held the ridiculous belief that we weren't even humans). I came away with a new respect for the South for fighting and dying for a cause in which they believed in totally. They are extremely well-researched, providing little-known information about this historical fight. This series of books covers the Civil War from "A to Z". Although my family home was just 3 blocks from Fort Stevens where the Confederate army almost took Washington and where President Lincoln was almost killed by a Confederate army, we never learned the amazing story behind the fort which we used as a playground. Washington and Frederick Douglass but only enough to fill a thimble. Guess who was a hypocritical, ignorant racist? ME!!! I discovered that I knew about as much about the Civil War as I was taught in school about African-American and black Americans - NOTHING!!! Oh, we got a smidgen on George Washington Carver, Booker T. ![]() Reading this series only proved my personal credo "Racism is born out of ignorance". OUTSTANDING! I'M PROUD TO BE A BLACK AMERICAN!!Īs a black American who grew up in Washington, DC, I never had ANYTHING good to say about the Confederacy. ![]()
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