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u/chucksutherland · 2 pointsr/Tennessee

Consider going to the library. My small town library has plenty of good resources. I am sure yours would as well.
Some of my favorite books on Tennessee are:
Tennessee Place Names
Place Names of the Smokies
Tennessee Coal Mining, Railroading, and Logging
This is a cool resource on Tennessee historic political boundaries.

As far as county histories, again check out your local library. Each county (to my knowledge) has an official history book. That would be a good place to start. Also see if there are any local historical societies (your librarian will likely know) that can help you find what you're looking for.

u/JimWilliams423 · 2 pointsr/Tennessee

So your position is that we should have monuments to monsters in places of high regard like the state house and public parks in order to remind us not to become monsters?

If that's the logic. It sure ain't working.

See the example of the klan standing with the bedford bust in the state house. Or the rally around the Robert E Lee monument in Charlottesville where they marched with torches shouting that the jews "will not replace us" and then murdered a woman.

The monuments aren't a deterrence to monsters, they are an incitement.

Should there be a monument to Osama bin Laden in order to remind us not to commit mass murder in the name of religious insanity? We consigned his corpse to the bottom of the ocean because we knew that was a bad idea.

> It was a different time which required different actions.

No, it wasn't a different time. There have always been people condemning white supremacy. The only difference now is that the white supremacists don't have quite as much power to muffle their critics as they used to.

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> The common man fought that war and died never knowing what they were really fighting over.

No, they absolutely knew what they were fighting for. They weren't dummies. The average foot soldier was well aware they were fighting for white supremacy. The declarations of secession explicitly spelled out they were fighting for white supremacy and they used that to recruit the cannon fodder - if black people were equal to white people, then poor whites would no longer have anyone below them in the social hierarchy.

Here's a quote from The Battlecry of Freedom: Civil War Era by James McPherson:

> So they undertook a campaign to convince nonslaveholders that they too had a stake in disunion. The stake was white supremacy. In this view, the Black Republican program of abolition was the first step toward racial equality and amalgamation. Georgia’s Governor Brown carried this message to his native uplands of north Georgia whose voters idolized him. Slavery “is the poor man’s best Government,” said Brown. “Among us the poor white laborer . . . does not belong to the menial class. The negro is in no sense his equal. ... He belongs to the only true aristocracy, the race of white men” Thus yeoman farmers “will never consent to submit to abolition rule,” for they “know that in the event of the abolition of slavery, they would be greater sufferers than the rich, who would be able to protect themselves. . . . When it becomes necessary to defend our rights against so foul a domination, I would call upon the mountain boys as well as the people of the lowlands, and they would come down like an avalanche and swarm around the flag of Georgia.