Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America, New Edition

by Kirk Savage

Book Overview

A history of U.S. Civil War monuments that shows how they distort history and perpetuate white supremacy

The United States began as a slave society, holding millions of Africans and their descendants in bondage, and remained so until a civil war took the lives of a half million soldiers, some once slaves themselves. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves explores how the history of slavery and its violent end was told in public...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691183155
• ISBN13: 9780691183152
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"