Comments on: Amen, Brooks Simpson

By: Patrick Young

Patrick Young — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 15:35:55 +0000

Only a decade ago, someone not in the neoConfederate orbit would only have heard about Black Confederates if a Kevin Levin or Brooks Simpson mentioned them in a talk or article. So back then it made sense to avoid talking about that myth. Now I hear about BCs all the time from non ideological people who have encountered it on the net. Not talking about it doesn’t seem to be working.

By: Daniel O'Sullivan

Daniel O'Sullivan — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 04:20:27 +0000

I tend to agree with your post. My brief foray into the online Black Confederate phenom left me despairing for humanity. Many of these sites are thinly veiled neo-Confederate racist sites. I wish American historians, like my hero Gary Gallagher, felt more comfortable engaging the general public on these matters. I understand the “giving them a spot light” argument, but the alternative is to abandon the field to them and nurture yet another generation of badly misinformed Americans.

By: Black Confederates, the Internet, and Historical Interpretation | Western Mass Civil War Sesquicentennial

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:48:15 +0000

[...] Donald Shaffer, today on his blog “Civil War Emancipation,” in a post entitled “Amen, Brooks Simpson,” also weighs in on these subjects (black Confederates, and use of the web for historical [...]