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Escape To Honor by Larry Harris6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() It says African Americans had to die to be counted as people, and from that the American Republic can be reinvented and reimagined.” “This monument tells a story like no other monument about that war. “This monument has always been here for more than 100 years saying that the Confederacy did not win that war,” he said. The unit’s heroism during its failed assault on Fort Wagner in South Carolina inspired tens of thousands of Black men and others to sign up for the Union Army, helping turn the tide of the war.īlight, in his remarks, also acknowledged the memorial’s place in the broader debate over the removal of Civil War monuments lionizing the Confederacy. ![]() The towering bronze relief by American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens captures the stirring call to arms answered by Black soldiers who served in the unit, which was popularized in the 1989 Oscar-winning movie “Glory.” ![]() “What are we giving up for the Republic?” We have a democracy in great peril,” Blight said. He pointed to the memorial’s Latin inscription, which he said is translated: “He gave up everything to serve the Republic.” David Blight, a Yale history professor, said the memorial is considered the country’s greatest work of public art not just because of its beauty but also because of the message it tells. ![]()
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