I finally had a chance to watch the new Will Smith movie, Emancipation. It’s not a great movie, but it is well worth watching. For the purposes of this post today, I am going to confine myself to making a couple points that connect the movie to broader issues of Civil War history and memory.
The main character is based loosely on the famous Harper’s Week…
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