Here’s a short 2 and a half minute Youtube video that’s relevant and informative.
This timeline shows confederate monuments are about racial conflict
For those of you that don’t want to watch (of course, some of it is meaningless without having watched the video for the full context);
This makes it pretty clear that these monuments weren’t just trying to ‘celebrate history and honor the noble Confederacy.’ They were erected to scare and intimidate black people, plain and simple.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/6umym5/when_perusing_wikipedias_list_of_confederate/
I found this thread to be incredibly informative on the subject. All of Georgy_K_Zhukov’s posts about it are worth reading.
Very interesting read. I’m actually subbed there, but I must’ve missed that post, so I’m glad you pointed it out. There does seem to be a very clear shift from honoring fallen soldiers to wholesale romanticization of the Confederacy. Personally, I have no problem with solemnly honoring the fallen soldiers, but I think it’s wrong to try and honor the Confederacy as a whole. Whether the war was fought solely over slavery, or slavery was just one aspect of an overall disconnect between the North and the South; it can’t be denied that slavery did play a part in the war, and the Confederacy was on the wrong side of that issue.