Teaching America's youth in the Deep South. Author of Before Dred Scott: Slavery and Legal Culture in the American Confluence, 1787-1857 (#CambridgeUP, 2016).
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Jun 14, 2020 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
On May 10, 1906, Charles Scott, a candidate for governor who often campaigned in his Confederate uniform, gave the speech dedicating a new Confederate monument at @OleMissRebels.
We’ve searched for the full text of this speech for years. On Friday night, I finally found it.
It was reprinted in full in the Vicksburg Herald on May 11, 1906.