Leftist historians claim that mainstream historic accounts of the Reconstruction Era fail to give black freedmen enough credit for their postwar rebuilding role. If they care about double standards, they should recognize theirs when they don‘t acknowledge black Confederate soldiers.
Wanjiru Njoya
Dr. Wanjiru Njoya is the Walter E. Williams Research Fellow for the Mises Institute. She is the author of Economic Freedom and Social Justice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), Redressing Historical Injustice (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023, with David Gordon) and “A Critique of Equality Legislation in Liberal Market Economies” (Journal of Libertarian Studies, 2021).