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Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves: Race, War, and Monument in Nineteenth-Century America by Kirk Savage Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1999 ISBN-10: 0-691-00947-3 / 0691009473 ISBN-13: 978-0-691-00947-6 / 9780691009476 The United States of America originated as a slave society, holding millions of Africans and their descendants in bondage, and remained so until a civil war took the lives of a half million soldiers, some once slaves themselves. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves explores how that history of slavery |