Mr. Edd
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FREE BLACK. ENSLAVED. CONFEDERATE. YOUR ANCESTOR. YOUR TRUTH. History gave your ancestors one story and told you it was the whole truth. It wasn't. Free Black men enlisted and served in the Confederate army. They drilled, they marched, they fought. Not because anyone made them. Because the South was home, and home was worth something. Enslaved men went to war alongside the men they had grown up with. Some as body servants, some as laborers, some in combat roles that records barely captured before those records were lost or ignored. And the ones who stayed behind held the farms together. They protected the women, the children, the old men left behind while the armies moved. They fed families. They buried the dead. They kept life from coming completely apart. Then the war ended. And history flattened them. Not into silence. Into a single, simple story that had no room for complicated people living complicated lives. A story that decided in advance what they must have thought and felt and wanted and never asked. A story that erased the free Black Southerner who fought and came home and raised a family whose descendants are alive right now, not knowing he existed. Maybe in your family. This is not about sanitizing what the war was. Telling the whole truth means carrying all of it. The suffering and the service. The bondage and the loyalty. The things that don't fit neatly into anyone's preferred narrative. Your ancestors were not footnotes. They were not props in someone else's story. They were people who made choices inside an impossible world, and those choices deserve to be known. How do you know who you are if you don't know the truth about where you came from? The H.K. Edgerton Equal Protection Initiative is about our shared heritage. There are an estimated 80 million CSA-Americans alive in the United States today. If your family comes from Southern states, that makes you a CSA-American. Black, White, and every heritage in between. Your heritage matters. Your ancestor's story will not survive unless you tell it. Fill out the affidavit of CSA ancestry. It takes minutes. southernindependenceassociation.org It creates a permanent record. It says your people existed, they mattered, and you refuse to let history bury them again. Do it for them. Do it for yourself, your children, grandchildren, and future generations. Mindy Esposito/ March 3, 2026/ Nashville, Tennessee.
The Constitution did not create the institution of domestic slavery—it was no part of the object for which it was formed, to determine what should be property, but an important portion of its duty to generalize and protect the rights of citizens beyond the limits of State jurisdiction. From this duty has arisen all the intermediate acts in relation to slave property, yet, at this late period of the practice under our Constitution, Senators assert that slavery is so purely local, that if a master passes with his slave into the limits of a State or territory where such property is not recognized by local law, the slave by that act becomes free. This is in keeping with the legislation of those States in which the legal and constitutional obligations to surrender fugitive slaves have been nullified. It is in keeping with the repeated declaration here, made with the condescending air of a sovereign granting a favor, that there is no intention to interfere with slavery as it exists in the States, but that its further extension cannot be permitted. Do Senators forget that this Government is but the agent, the creature of the States^—that it derives its powers from them—not they their righis or institutions from it. Slavery existed in the States before the formation of the Constitution—it needed no guarantee within their limits—its recognition beyond this was part of the more perfect Union, as its protection against all enemies whomsoever is part of the common defence for which that Constitution was adopted. There is no more prominent feature in the federal compact than the prohibition to the States to interfere with commerce. But if a citizen of Maryland cannot pass through Pennsylvania or Ohio, on his way to Kentucky or Missouri, without submitting his property to the tests of those States through which he is traveling, the right to free commerce among the States has no practical value." -7/12/1848
Robert E. Lee was a better American than Ilhan Omar.
Dear PragerU: An organization that presents itself as a defender of American history and conservative values has unfortunately amplified the platform of Ty Seidule through its widely viewed video on the causes of the "Civil War." Seidule maintains close ties to Jonathan Soros, son of George Soros and a prominent left-wing activist and funder, via his role in the Chamberlain Project. Featuring him in a U.S. Army uniform—a symbol Americans rightly respect—lent him unearned credibility among viewers who trust PragerU to uphold truthful historical standards rather than push activist propaganda. Seidule’s claimed expertise on the relationship between slavery and the "Civil War" is irrelevant and unreliable. He systematically omitted key facts and introduced clear distortions to pursue an agenda of attacking American heroes, particularly Robert E. Lee. His book on Lee contains no original research and instead promotes a conspiracy-theory framework. In reality, Lee earned broad admiration from Northern Republicans and national leaders for his post-war efforts at reconciliation. In 1907, on the centennial of Lee’s birth, President Theodore Roosevelt called for a fitting memoria commemorating General Lee’s life and deeds, to be erected by appealing to all of our people in every section of this country for the establishment of such a memorial in some educational institution in the South, President Taft went further in a November 10, 1909 address, endorsing the proposal while declaring: “We have reached a point in this country when we can look back, not without love, not without intense pride, but without partisan passion, to the events of the Civil War. We have reached a point, I am glad to say, when the North can admire to the full the heroes of the South, and the South can admire to the full the heroes of the North… that there should be a great memorial in honor of General Robert E. Lee.” Taft even approved a monument to reconciliation in Arlington National Cemetery, a monument that Ty Seidule falsely claimed was designed to honor slavery. President Calvin Coolidge reinforced this spirit of national healing in a May 25, 1924, address: “The bitterness of conflict is passed. Time has softened it; discretion has changed it. Your country respects you for remembering the memory of those who wore the gray. You respect others who value the memory of those who wore the blue. In that mutual respect may there be a firmer friendship, a stronger and more glorious Union.” Esteemed Northern historians such as Allan Nevins and Samuel Eliot Morison likewise held Lee in high regard. This respect arose from documented history and a spirit of national reconciliation, not from any “Lost Cause” mythology. By ignoring such established leaders and scholars while elevating a left-wing activist, PragerU misleads ordinary Americans who deserve better from a platform they trust. Americans who cherish truthful history would readily accept a sincere apology from PragerU for its association with Seidule. The national mood is clearly changing as more people recognize the damage caused by recent acts of historical erasure. Consider the exhibit at the MOCA in Los Angeles, where left-wing artist Kara Walker made a mockery of a Stonewall Jackson equestrian statue. Walker, long known for her grotesque and satirical silhouette works that graphically depict racial violence, sexual depravity, and grotesque stereotypes, reassembled the statue’s fragmented parts into a distorted hybrid figure—faceless head perched on the horse’s snout, a clenched fist tumbling to the ground—presenting it not as a hero but as a monument to “horror” and white supremacy. Amazingly, she called this "vital medicine." Even more troubling is the ongoing travesty surrounding the Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville. Originally dedicated in 1924 as a symbol of reconciliation between North and South, the statue was removed amid activist pressure. Now its bronze is being melted down and reformatted into an entirely new “ROOTED” pavilion at Market Street Park by the Jefferson School African American Heritage Center. Another invaluable artifact will be thrust upon the American people in a manner they find repulsive. Proponents describe this as recasting “oppression into art for truth and repair,” yet it erases the statue’s original purpose of national unity. These acts of ritual mutilation, melting, and recasting serve only to stoke hatred, deepen division, and rewrite history to advance an activist agenda. PragerU must not be seen to endorse or associate with this kind of disgusting, divisive behavior Therefore, I strongly urge PragerU to immediately disassociate from the video featuring Ty Seidule and to publicly distance itself from his work. Continuing any relationship with content that distorts history to attack revered American figures like Lee undermines your credibility as a voice for accurate education. By correcting this mistake and issuing the apology many would welcome, PragerU can reaffirm its devotion to truth over ideology, respect the spirit of reconciliation embodied by leaders from Roosevelt to Coolidge, and regain the trust of those who expect better from a conservative platform dedicated to defending our mutual heritage. -Staff of Jefferson Davis
