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TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND (Final Report) 1999/12/31 MdHR 991422 MdHR 991422, Image No: 160 Print image (38K) |
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TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND (Final Report) 1999/12/31 MdHR 991422 MdHR 991422, Image No: 160 Print image (38K) |
| 151 13. Findings Relevant to Permanent Monuments of Commemoration In Maryland, there exist a number of public monuments to commemorate the genocidal Holocaust of the nineteen thirties and forties which victimized millions of mostly white people, including especially the Jews, on another continent. The Task Force finds that this is as it should be because it views that all human suffering and degradations which involve genocide, slavery, and forced labor visited on innocent people are monstrosities. In Maryland, there exist a number of public monuments to commemorate the sacrifices of mostly white Civil War heroes who fought for the Union, and the Task Force finds that this is as it should be. In Maryland, there even exist a number of public monuments to commemorate the lives of mostly white soldiers who fought to keep black Americans enslaved and the Task Force is not opposed to this. It is, moreover, a matter of historic record that in 1939, Maryland adopted as its official state song words from a poem by James Ryder Randall with Confederate sympathies [See Maryland Manual, 1996-1997 edition, p. 18]. |