Baltimore removes 4 statues over night

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Maryland has an interesting past. It was founded as a safe haven for Catholics before Protestant came, dominated the colonial law making bodies and banned Catholics from taking office. My direct forefathers, the Carrolls, worked hard to get that right back and went on to sign the DOI and the Constitution.

Prior to the Civil War, Baltimore was home to the largest free black population. Maryland overwhelmingly voted to stay in the Union but they still distrusted the presence of union troops and slave owners in the rural areas opposed the abolition of slavery. The first bloodshed of the Civil War occurred in Baltimore during the Pratt St riots. Soon after, Union forces at Ft McHenry, birthplace of the Star Spangled Banner, turned the cannons on the city. All pro secession lawmakers were jailed there to ensure Maryland didn't fall. Far more Marylanders fought for the Union.

We're not a Southern State. The Mason Dixon line was drawn to rectify an error the king made when he took land away from Maryland and gave it to Pennsylvania (originally MD's charter gave it far more to the North, including Philly, but PA argued they needed a port after the King declared the wrong coordinates that gave that land to PA).

These particular monuments were funded by private citizens representing Confederate veterans, children, and sympathizers as a way to promote the Lost Cause fable in a time when Baltimore experienced a renewed push for racial segregation and underfunding of black public services.

There is only 1 Union monument in the city. One to the three Confederate ones. There's no reason to idolize any traitors much less in this city.