A 2015 New Orleans Times-Picayune article tells how New Orléans' Vieux Carré Commission recommended that four monuments be removed. Three of them honour
[...] Confederate generals P.G.T. Beauregard and Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy [...]
The other monument
[...] was erected in 1891 to honor the 16 members of the White League who died during an insurrection against the integrated Reconstructionist government in Louisiana, which was based in New Orleans at the time.
Various news outlets are reporting that the latter monument, an obelisk, has been dismantled at the behest of the city government, and that the others are also set to be dismantled.
coverage:
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 04 2017, @03:19PM
I never said Virginia was a Northern state; you misread my post.
By the time of the Civil War, the Northern states didn't have slaves, but before that, Northern states had slaves--some of them had an economy that used them to the fullest and built the state's wealth with their labor. New Jersey had plantations, for example.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave_states_and_free_states [wikipedia.org]
http://www.salon.com/2015/07/29/secret_history_of_a_northern_slave_state_how_slavery_was_written_into_new_jerseys_dna/ [salon.com]