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Civil War Reenactment
SKETCH-O-VISION
A VERY GOOD USE OF YOUR TIME.
The setup
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The premise
Here’s the bit.
A Confederate officer addresses his fellow Civil War reenactors about preserving Southern heritage. Two Black men arrive dressed as enslaved people and insist on joining in, forcing him to explain which aspects of the past his group wants to recreate. Their exaggerated deference repeatedly derails his speech until his irritation exposes the prejudice behind the pageantry. With that admission secured, the visitors abruptly drop their act and rob the group of cash and valuable memorabilia.
The funny people
Meet the cast. 4
Say it with us
Highly quotable.
Yeah, pure and beautiful... slice.
That is all I needed to hear.
Behind the scenes
The people who made it.
Peter Atencio
Director
A little extra
Notes from the archive.
Michael Fischer examined the sketch's treatment of slavery and Confederate memory in a 2016 essay for The Journal of the Civil War Era.
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