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Ethan Kytle
@EthanKytle
Fresno St history prof. Co-author of Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy. Next book on NOLA school desegregation fight.
Jun 13, 2020 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
There’s been a lot of talk about the Juneteenth anniversary and Trump’s (now abandoned) plan to hold a rally that day--and rightly so.

But we must not forget another important anniversary next week: June 17th--the 5th anniversary of the Mother Emanuel massacre in Charleston, SC It is fitting that we will mark this solemn occasion amid yet another wave of Confederate memorial defacement, renaming, and removal.

After all, the Emanuel massacre was a watershed in American’s long debate about the place of Confederate symbols in our public landscape.
Sep 8, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This fine new WAPO piece on pushback against frank discussions of slavery at historic plantations reminds me of one of my favorite stories that I heard working with @BlainRoberts1 on *Denmark Vesey's Garden*...

#twitterstorians #slaveryarchive

washingtonpost.com/history/2019/0… ...It was relayed to us by an excellent African American tour guide named Sandra Campbell. She recalled giving a private tour to an elderly white couple who had hired her to drive them around downtown Charleston and then out to Middleton Place plantation. Apparently unaware...
May 13, 2019 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Happy Robert Smalls Escape Day!

Neo-Confederates love to "remember" imaginary black Confederates.

I prefer to honor the hundreds of thousands of enslaved people like Robert Smalls who liberated themselves during the Civil War by escaping to Union lines.

157 years ago today... ...in the early morning hours of May 13, 1862, the enslaved seaman Robert Smalls seized his and his family’s freedom by commandeering a Confederate ship in Charleston, SC.

After sailing out of the city’s well-defended harbor, Smalls surrendered the vessel to the Union...