A reader asked me this week if I know about Joshua Lane Foster, the founder of Foster's Daily Democrat. I do. Isn’t it curious, she noted, that a newspaper named after a pro-South, pro-slavery, anti-Lincoln publisher is still in circulation today? Curious, I agree, even fascinating. Which is why I’ve written about Joshua Foster in this column half a dozen times.Still, I get the reader’s implied point. Since the murder of George Floyd and the rise of the Black Lives Matter
