Confederate monuments would not exist in such large numbers without mass production, which, in the wake of the Civil War, took place more often in the North than in the South.

Lola Arellano-Fryer
Lola Arellano-Fryer is a writer based in Brooklyn and Philadelphia. She holds MAs in the History of Art from the Courtauld and Bryn Mawr College, an is interested in topics related to memory and the politics of memorialization. She is also Hyperallergic's Social Media Manager. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram.