Great Black Heroes of the Confederacy

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You have to figure there’s a problem when the state history text book says lots of blacks fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War. And probably another problem when the author of the textbook begs off apologizing that well, she found someone who said that when she was researching the topic on the internet. Learn more about Virginia’s fun time with its own in-state only faux-fact-filled text books.

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