Historian Bennett Parten traces an oft-forgotten story from U.S. General William T. Sherman's march through Georgia in 1864: the incident at Ebenezer Creek where the American case for reparations began. Illustration by Be Boggs. Americans get Sherman's March all wrong. Ask anyone who's seen Gone with the Wind, and they'll tell you that U.S. General William T. Sherman's roughly 250-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah marked the swan song of the Confederacy. They'll recall the burning of Atlanta, a panoramic scene in the film that made cinematic history, and they'll regard Sherman as most Georgians still do, as the man who laid waste to the state by slashing and burning his way to the coast.

https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2022/10/31/shermans-march-reparations/ideas/essay/

#zocalopublicsquare