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James Duane

US, NYS Continues To Honor Slavers, Racists, Traitors and Scoundrels

January 10, 2023 by Alan J. Singer Leave a Comment

Robert E Lee Portrait at West PointIn 2023, the United States Military Academy will remove 13 Confederate symbols on its West Point campus. They include a portrait of Robert E. Lee dressed in a Confederate uniform, a stone bust of Lee, who was superintendent of West Point before the Civil War, and a bronze plaque with an image of a hooded figure and the words “Ku Klux Klan.”

Art displayed in the United States Capitol building in Washington, DC, still includes images of 141 enslavers and 13 Confederates who went to war against the country. A study by the Washington Post found that more than one-third of the statues and portraits in the Capitol building honor enslavers or Confederates and at least six more honor possible enslavers where evidence is disputed. [Read more…] about US, NYS Continues To Honor Slavers, Racists, Traitors and Scoundrels

Filed Under: Arts, Capital-Saratoga, History, New York City Tagged With: Abolition, Albany, Alexander Hamilton, Alexander Macomb, Andrew Jackson, Benjamin Franklin, Black History, Civil War, Daniel Webster, Edward Livingston, Fernando Wood, George Clinton, George Washington, Henry Clay, James Duane, James Madison, James Monroe, John Dickinson, John Tyler, Ku Klux Klan, Manhattan, Martin Van Buren, Morgan Lewis, New York City, Peter Stuyvesant, Political History, Richard Varick, Robert Livingston, Rufus King, Samuel Morse, Slavery, Thomas Jefferson, West Point, William Havemeyer

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