Taking Down the Confederate Flag Is Not Woke

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Taking Down the Confederate Flag Is Not Woke

TL;DR

  • History's difficult-to-sentimentalize aspects.
  • Frederick Douglass's childhood realization of slavery's meaning.
  • The experience involved his aunt, Hester.
  • Hester was described as beautiful and of noble form.
  • She had an admirer named Ned Roberts.