Given my publication record and commentary over the years, I don't think anyone would suggest that I am in any way "sweeping real persons under" anything. I have written entire books that center the stories of the enslaved and those who have intentionally distorted and/or ignored this history.
You are not telling me anything I don't already know about the memory of the Civil War and slavery.
All we know from that 1860 Slave Schedule census record is that there was some guy named John B. Magruder in Prince George's County Maryland who enslaved people. But we don't know if this is the same person who is the subject of Kevin's original post; or if P.G. County's John B. ever served in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States.
History can be very confusing when historical figures have the same name. Kevin has researched my great great uncle. This John Bowie Magruder grew up outside of Charlottesville. The home was called Glenmore. It is still the ancestral home of this branch of the Magruder Family. Near the home is the family cemetery. JohnтАЩs parents are buried there: Benjamin Magruder and his wife Louisa Minor Magruder. They are my great great grandparents.
Given my publication record and commentary over the years, I don't think anyone would suggest that I am in any way "sweeping real persons under" anything. I have written entire books that center the stories of the enslaved and those who have intentionally distorted and/or ignored this history.
You are not telling me anything I don't already know about the memory of the Civil War and slavery.
All we know from that 1860 Slave Schedule census record is that there was some guy named John B. Magruder in Prince George's County Maryland who enslaved people. But we don't know if this is the same person who is the subject of Kevin's original post; or if P.G. County's John B. ever served in the Provisional Army of the Confederate States.
History can be very confusing when historical figures have the same name. Kevin has researched my great great uncle. This John Bowie Magruder grew up outside of Charlottesville. The home was called Glenmore. It is still the ancestral home of this branch of the Magruder Family. Near the home is the family cemetery. JohnтАЩs parents are buried there: Benjamin Magruder and his wife Louisa Minor Magruder. They are my great great grandparents.