When were Confederate Statues made?

R Project for web scraping Wikipedia looking for dates when confederate statues were erected

This is so wild. Let this sink in.

This was motivated by my recent trip to South Carolina and seeing my first confederate statue. I am not sure why we glorify these people who fought for people to be enslaved.

Check these out btw:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOkFXPblLpU
- how the United Daughters of the Confederacy brainwashed the youth by pretending slavery wasn’t the cause of the Civil War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WClgR6Q0aPE
- the reason why each peek of confederate statues were created
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/16/confederate-monuments-civil-war-history-trump
- how each peek and why these statues were created

Also, we witness the most statues being built in a single year in 1910 with 43 statues.

These bins are of width = 5 years.

It’s just something to think about…

Also web scraping is fun

sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Confederate_monuments_and_memorials_in_Alabama https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Confederate_monuments_and_memorials_in_Georgia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Confederate_monuments_and_memorials_in_Mississippi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Confederate_monuments_and_memorials_in_North_Carolina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Confederate_monuments_and_memorials_in_South_Carolina https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Confederate_monuments_and_memorials

To view web scraping methodology, please view: https://github.com/cavandonohoe/confederate_statues

When Were Confederate Statues Created?

When were Confederate Statues made?