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The Black and the Gray: An Interview with Tony Horwitz

The Black and the Gray: An Interview with Tony Horwitz INTERVIEW The Black and the Gray An Interview with Tony Horwitz Editors' note: Tony Horwit^ is a Virginia-based reporterfor The. Wall Street Journal and the author, most recently, «^Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches From the Unfinished Civil War, to bepublished by Pantheon in March of 1998. While researching his book, whichfocuses on contemporary remembrance ofthe Civil War, he became interested in the topic ofAfrican Americans who served the Confederacy, and wrote an article about it in The Wall Street Journal. Southern Cultures "interviewed" Horwit% (by e-mail) on this contentious subject. southern cultures: So, how didyouget interested in this business ofblack Confederates? tony horwitz: I kept hearing about them wherever I went while researching my book. "Black Confederates" has become something of a mantra in certain southern circles. At Sons of Confederate Veterans meetings, there would be talk of erecting a monument to black Confederates. During the debate over [black tennis player] Arthur Ashe's statue on Monument Avenue [in Richmond], southern heritage groups proposed honoring black Confederates instead. And every time the rebel flag came up, someone was sure to say, "Well, what about black Confederates? Why don't we hear more about them?" After a while I became curious http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

The Black and the Gray: An Interview with Tony Horwitz

Horwitz, Tony
Southern Cultures , Volume 4 (1) – Jan 4, 1998
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INTERVIEW The Black and the Gray An Interview with Tony Horwitz Editors' note: Tony Horwit^ is a Virginia-based reporterfor The. Wall Street Journal and the author, most recently, «^Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches From the Unfinished Civil War, to bepublished by Pantheon in March of 1998. While researching his book, whichfocuses on contemporary remembrance ofthe Civil War, he became interested in the topic ofAfrican Americans who served the Confederacy, and wrote an article about it in The Wall Street Journal. Southern Cultures "interviewed" Horwit% (by e-mail) on this contentious subject. southern cultures: So, how didyouget interested in this business ofblack Confederates? tony horwitz: I kept hearing about them wherever I went while researching my book. "Black Confederates" has become something of a mantra in certain southern circles. At Sons of Confederate Veterans meetings, there would be talk of erecting a monument to black Confederates. During the debate over [black tennis player] Arthur Ashe's statue on Monument Avenue [in Richmond], southern heritage groups proposed honoring black Confederates instead. And every time the rebel flag came up, someone was sure to say, "Well, what about black Confederates? Why don't we hear more about them?" After a while I became curious

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Published: Jan 4, 1998

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