Go! Fight! Win!
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There is a compelling, quasi-historical, fictionalized account of the 1811 slave revolt along the "German Coast" of the Mississippi River in Edward Baptist's 2014 best-seller, THE HALF H AS NEVER BEEN TOLD.
The book is a compelling read as Baptist endeavors to tell the story of American slavery from the enslaved African-Americans' point of view, a point of view completely suppressed during slavery's reign in the South. Only in the last fifty years or so has it found its voice among American authors.
Here is my review of Baptist's book: https://jesusontaxes.liberty.me/good-book-bad-book-great-idea-book-review-plus/
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These projects about the past are important to understand the present. I look forward to seeing this in some fashion in other places, such as southern New Mexico. There are plenty of untold historical events.
Confusion must set in for many native Americans (and others) that arrive/depart/drive by the El Paso Airport and see a very large statue of Onate the conquistador that is memorialized as a hero of this areas history.
As a native of New Orleans, now resident here in southern New Mexico, the backstories always make more sense than what is in the history books. LaPlace has many backstories to tell.
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Bravo Dread Scott!
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It says something about this time of Trump that Mr. Scott felt obliged to conceal the exact route the actors will take.
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About time to celebrate African Americans in history.
The oral histories recorded in the 1920's and 30's of former slaves are extremely interesting.
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As someone who has taken part in scores of historical re-enactments, I wish all of the participants the best and hope that it will become something that will be celebrated in the future. Those taking part will have a better feel of what it was like back then. Those who witness the event will, hopefully, be encouraged to look into the history of it, and the treatment of slaves in the South.
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It's about time. I've read the first three volumes of Sidney Blumenthal's political biography of Lincoln. It contains immense detail of the politics leading up to the Civil War, especially what any decent human being now would consider hideous attitudes and policies demanding approval by Southern white politicians and others. Good luck to Dread Scott's marchers.
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Hopefully, this will become an annual event, and help take the original uprising into history books to help counter the lies we were taught and raised on (and continue to be taught--such as Texas textbooks which list slavery as the 5th cause of the civil war).
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This is a mighty and poignant project. History, art, culture and many serious and persons with high standards participating. How might someone like me be a part or observe this remarkable event?
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A very powerful and compelling revisioning of a more accurate telling of history. Reclaiming this past provides a dramatic means to reach out and create a more informed public consciousness of the way the present is born fdrom the past while at the same time validating and inspiring a longer term awakening to alternative ways to meaningfully historicize the past for its participants.
It's worth noting that this very original piece of art and history reflects a growing trend. One somewhat similar project was a recent reenactment yo create a film of the Bisbee expulsion of miners to keep them from organizing there in the early 1900s. I look forward to video of the Louisiana project.
We need more of this to bring to life some very consequential events that get far too little attention.
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I applaud this work of art. For too long we have relied on protest and shaming to make white historians include our history in the history of our nation. I believe that we should support efforts like Mr. Dread's because we need to be the authors of our own history.
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