Monday letters: US flag also flew over slavery

It seems important to many that we take down the Confederate flags that remind some of us of racism, and put them away for good. What about taking down all flags that remind anyone in this country of racism? Where to start?

What about the flags that flew over the slave ships leaving Africa full of human cargo in the 1700s? Which ones were those?

What flag was flying over the slave auction center in Philadelphia in 1805?

What flags were flying over the ships from Rhode Island that were trading guns and rum for slaves in 1806?

Which flag was in the chamber of the Supreme Court in 1857 when it declared Dred Scott still legally a slave?

Which flag could be seen by the people locked up in the slave pens in Washington in 1860?

Which flag flew over the U.S. Capitol as newly inaugurated President Abraham Lincoln endorsed the Corwin Amendment to the Constitution that ordered permanent legalization of slavery in 1861?

And which flag flew over the Supreme Court of the United States in 1898 when Jim Crow laws were ruled legal?

Maybe the question is not where to begin, but where to end this foolishness.

Greenville