WASHINGTON - It was a small paragraph of a large textbook, but the controversy sparked by the big error led to a a complete review of the way Virginia reviews its textbooks.
The textbook falsely claimed that African American soldiers fought for the confederacy in large numbers.
Now, with the 150th anniversary of the war in the forefront, the curator of the African American Civil War Museum says the controversy really was the result of bad scholarship.
"The best way to clarify and understand is to use primary sources," says Harry Jones.
He says there is plenty of documentation that more than a quarter million blacks troops fought for the Union during the war. There are letters from many of them and letters from politicians and general praising their bravery and competence.
But Jones, says such documentation does not exist for claims that black troops fought for the south.
"There's a lot of poor scholarship," he says.
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5 comments:
Liberals will change history to fit their narrative.
Yes they did because back then, they knew the war was not about slavery. It was about State's rights and the State's ability to print their own money.
I thoght the number of African American troops in the Union Army was 89,000?
And if you read text books I think alot of us would be shocked at what it contains.....Instead of talking about all the good the US has done ....they are all consintrated on the bad, how evil we are......PLEASE PARENTS READ YOUR CHILDRENS TEXT BOOKS.....
No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility.
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