Legacy Sites confront ‘our nation’s silence’

Crestview News Bulletin

Legacy Sites confront ‘our nation’s silence’

The city was the first capital of the Confederacy, and the first White House of the Confederacy continues to serve as a museum across the street from the Alabama State Capitol. By 1860, Alabama’s population included 400,000 enslaved black people, and Montgomery, where nearly two out of every three residents were enslaved, had a higher slave population than any other Alabama city, according to the Legacy Museum Book. Montgomery is also known as t…