Thomas Ricks
speaker
222 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4 Jul
Thomas Ricks’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was paved over.
Now, that happens all the time.
Sure.
African-American cemeteries were totally disrespected.
This is a special case because several hundred of the African-Americans were Civil War soldiers, colored troops.
Oh.
So you're mixing in this.
Well, you're dissing the military here, too.
Sure.
Well, they didn't care in the 1950s when they ran a highway over it.
Oh.
So it's fascinating, the whole issue of memorialization.
Yeah, and we can be instructed by their failures as well as by their successes.
My wife happens to be a historian of the 19th century, wrote a terrific book called Escape on the Pearl about...
the biggest slave, attempted slave escape in American history, when a bunch of middle-class slaves, wine stewards, you know, violent teachers in Washington, D.C., chartered a boat to take them to freedom in Philadelphia.
And the boat was captured by a steamboat, and they were taken back, and it became a big, big thing in the 1840s.
Her rule of thumb is what was the person best known for?
Robert E. Lee is best known for fighting a war to defend slavery.
Monument comes down.
Thomas Jefferson was best known for the Declaration of Independence.
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