jameis baldwin, one of my favorite writers, the great ovelist, essayist novelist, civil right, the voice of the civil rights least t movement, written voice of the civil rights movement was always writing about the legacies in slavery and always writing about the legacies of this war.fran he wrotekl a line in 1962 which is frankly very poignant. he said, the problem with the way americans use words about their history is they use the words to u cover up the sleeper, but never to wake him up.od night we sometimes want our history to make us get a good night's . sleep. to not give us nightmares to cover us up.ood. give me a history that makes me feel good. give me aor history that makes me comfortable. give me a history want w to live in. give me a history where i know myself in it. don't give me a history that challenges me and shocks me. if you look around you will find the legacies of the civil war, the legacies of the verdicts of appomattox. -- an if there were verdicts, and there were, someone really lost this war here, l and someone really won this war. that t affair of honor honor t