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The episode that occurred in Richmond during the unveiling of the Stonewall Jackson memorial demonstrated the roles black southerners were to play in the Lost Cause narrative.  On page 83 Blight says, “the only blacks who formally participated were a contingent of former slave workers who had been in the Stonewall Brigade during the war,” and this group was positioned at the very end of a long parade.  How does this episode represent the popular amnesia or reremembering process that took place across the South following the war? -Erin B.

The episode that occurred in Richmond during the unveiling of the Stonewall Jackson memorial demonstrated the roles black southerners were to play in the Lost Cause narrative.  On page 83 Blight says, “the only blacks who formally participated were a contingent of former slave workers who had been in the Stonewall Brigade during the war,” and this group was positioned at the very end of a long parade.  How does this episode represent the popular amnesia or reremembering process that took place across the South following the war? -Erin B.