Restoration of torn-down Confederate monument will cost $10 million over 2 years, military says

AP News ^ | Updated 5:05 PM CDT, August 6, 2025 | Konstantin Toropin

[FLT-bird]

OUT-FREAKING-STANDING.

Eat shit Leftists. Your attempt to erase American history has failed.

[556x45]

I can see why…it’s their history of slavery and rebellion. Nothing has changed…

[jeffersondem]

It is no coincidence that the Reconciliation Monument was desecrated at the height of the antisemitic movement in the U.S. Needless to say, the monument's designer, Moses Ezekiel, was Jewish.

It still rankles the Jew-haters that it was the Confederacy that had the first Jew to serve at the cabinet level in North America - Judah P. Benjamin.

And, of course, General Grant's antisemitism is legendary including his General Order No. 11.

Antisemitism is stronger today than ever, especially in the modern democrat party; not so much anymore in the GOP ranks. It will be good to see Moses Ezekiel's artwork restored at Lee's Arlington.

[cyclotic]

Leftists only know how to destroy. They couldn’t build a three piece Lego set.

[BrexitBen]

Send the bill for all of the destroyed historical monuments to George and Alexander Soros.

They funded the mobs who tore down the statues.

[Georgia Girl 2]

😮

[11th_VA]

For context - in the 18th century, about 250,000 slaves were brought to America as well as an equal number of Indentured Servants. We never hear about the indentured servants,

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Historical estimates suggest that around 90-95% of African slaves transported during the Atlantic slave trade were initially enslaved by other Africans.

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[NFHale]

Do it anyway, no matter the cost.

Pay for it with USAID funds recovered by DOGE… stuff that was earmarked for for leftist garbage.

[BroJoeK]

"Eat shit Leftists. Your attempt to erase American history has failed."

The best numbers I can find suggest that roughly 700 Confederate monuments were erected between 1890 and 1950s.
Of those, about 40% have since been relocated to less prominent places, but very few -- only around 15 -- were destroyed.

IOW, if you go looking for the original 700 Confederate monuments, about 400 are still there and 285 of those removed are now in a safer place, such as cemeteries, museums or private lands.

In addition to Confederate monuments, there were around 1,300 streets, schools, parks & other government buildings named after Confederates.
Today around 900 (2/3) of those remain.

One can easily suppose that the old Confederate monuments & symbols remain untouched in areas where they are considered non-controversial, and have been removed or relocated from areas where they seem offensive to today's local populations.

[BroJoeK]

11th_VA: "For context - in the 18th century, about 250,000 slaves were brought to America as well as an equal number of Indentured Servants.
We never hear about the indentured servants,"

There were three categories of Americans "held to service or labor" (to use the Constitution's terms):

1. Around 600,000 indentured servants from 1630s-1820s, making up to 75% of migrants to some areas, and of those about 80% were men.
   Their terms of servitude were typically 4-7 years.

2. Around 50,000 prisoners from 1718-1775, all men with terms typically from 7-14 years, often treated more harshly than either indentured servants or African slaves.

3. Around 400,000 African slaves from 1625-1860s, held as slaves for life and their descendants as well.

Especially with indentured servants, since most were young men, once their service was completed, they were free to marry, move to settle and live normal lives.

With prisoners, their treatments were often harsh and many didn't survive, but those who did were also then free to move, often out to frontier areas where their pasts were unknown.

African slaves were originally treated as indentured servants who could earn their freedom, but that quickly eroded and by 1662 in Virginia, African slavery was permanent and inherited.
The term "chattel slavery" was not used in the 17th or 18th century, but the practice was well established at the time.

By 1790, about 10% of African Americans were freed-slaves with the largest numbers in Virginia (13,000), Maryland (8,000) and Pennsylvania (7,000), highly suggesting that Revolutionary War era promises of freedom to slaves for their honorable military services were fulfilled in thousands of cases.

By 1790, property owning freed African Americans could vote in some states:

1. New Jersey
2. Pennsylvania
3. New York
4. Connecticut
5. Massachusetts
6. Maryland

That ended under Jeffersonian Democrats "universal suffrage" which meant every man "free, white and 21" could vote, but nobody else.