this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2025
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Fire Memes for Traitor Haters

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Where we meme (joking in tone and detail, serious in sentiment) about General Sherman, the Civil War, and how the secesh traitors had it coming.

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  2. No Confederate sympathizing. Anti-democratic racist slaver traitors don't deserve shit.

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The artist, SMOKED_REEFERS, on Reddit says:

The folks Kate Bornstein refers to as Gender Outlaws—people we would nowadays refer to as trans, non-binary and more—have always existed. They are part of American history, they are part of abolition and emancipation and they are part of American.

Maria Lewis was an escaped slave who joined the Union and soldiered as a man. We have no pictures of them. But this is my rendition.

(Technically Maria was in the cavalry, but I chose to depict her as an infantry man. Sue me.)

I am going to redo most all of the shading/crosshatching and plan to make a bunch of stickers.

[–] BabyVi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Kinda disappointed we didn't get the calvary version tbh. But neat none the less.