By Tobias Carroll The present decade has seen an uptick in the removal of monuments to the Confederacy. There have been countless reasons for this, ranging from skepticism over the “Lost Cause” movement to a growing conviction that statues of people who defended slavery are, to say the least, morally disquieting. The 2020 announcement that a statue of civil rights activist Barbara Johns would replace one of Robert E. Lee in Washington, D.C. is emblematic of the large-scale shift happening nationwide. Now, Maryland is having its own landmark moment when it comes to statues related to the Confed…