{"id":608,"date":"2019-04-29T16:36:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T16:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/?p=608"},"modified":"2019-04-29T16:36:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T16:36:12","slug":"the-secret-history-of-the-photo-at-the-center-of-the-black-confederate-myth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"The Secret History Of The Photo At The Center Of The Black Confederate Myth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"at_zurlpreview\">\n<h2>The Secret History Of The Photo At The Center Of The Black Confederate Myth<\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"display: none;\">The Secret History Of The Photo At The Center Of The Black Confederate Myth<\/h3>\n<p class=\"imgp\"><img src=\"https:\/\/img.buzzfeed.com\/buzzfeed-static\/static\/2016-04\/17\/9\/campaign_images\/webdr02\/the-secret-history-of-the-photo-at-the-center-of--2-3640-1460900671-1_dblbig.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/img.buzzfeed.com\/buzzfeed-static\/static\/2016-04\/17\/9\/campaign_images\/webdr02\/the-secret-history-of-the-photo-at-the-center-of--2-3640-1460900671-1_dblbig.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"imgd\">A 160-year-old tintype depicting Andrew Chandler and his slave Silas, both in Confederate uniform, has long been used as evidence that slaves willingly fought against the army that aimed to free them. Following the national backlash against Confederate iconography, Silas&#8217;s descendants seek to debunk this once and for all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"imgs\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/adamserwer\/the-secret-history-of-the-photo-at-the-center-of-the-black-c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"external\">www.buzzfeed.com\/adamserwer\/the-secret-history-of-the-photo-at-the-center-of-the-black-c<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Secret History Of The Photo At The Center Of The Black Confederate Myth The Secret History Of The Photo At The Center Of The Black Confederate Myth A 160-year-old tintype depicting Andrew Chandler and his slave Silas, both in Confederate uniform, has long been used as evidence that slaves willingly fought against the army &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/?p=608\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Secret History Of The Photo At The Center Of The Black Confederate Myth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/robm.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}