Author: Patrick Young
Slate Slavery In America Podcast: Episode 2 Inside the Slave Ship
Here is Episode 2 of the Slate series on slavery. According to Slate: In episode 2 of the History of American Slavery, hosts Rebecca Onion…
March 18, 1869: Pres. Grant Signs Law Barring Racial Discrimination in Laws in District of Columbia
On March 18, 1869 President Grant signed legislation eliminating the word “white” wherever it was used as a qualification for voting, serving on a jury,…
Slate Slavery In America Podcast: Episode 1 The Terrible Transformation of Slavery in the 1600s
Five years ago Slate put out a well-regarded series on the history of American slavery. Unfortunately, it was behind a paywall and only Slate+ subscribers…
March 1869: President “Grant’s Intense Negroism” Denounced
Soon after Grant became president he was denounced for his “intense Negroism.” Charleston daily news Saturday, Mar 13, 1869 Charleston, SC Vol: 7 Page:2
Ku Klux Flour? Kooking With The Klan in 1868
So I was reading the daily farm report a while ago and I saw the report on commodities and darn if there wasn’t something called…
April 1867 First Ku Klux Klan Convention Held in Nashville’s Maxwell House
The founding of America’s oldest terrorist group, the Ku Klux Klan, is shrouded in myth and legend. While Klan lore places its first meeting on…
Platform of the Virginia Conservatives April 1869 “setting forth the policy of the white people of the state”
This platform was adopted by the Virginia Conservative Party on April 29, 1869. The Conservatives were a party made up of Democrats and old Whigs…
West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction of America After the Civil War by Heather Cox Richardson Heavily Discounted on Amazon
I was browsing Amazon today and I noticed that one of the better recent books on Reconstruction is heavily discounted. West from Appomattox: The Reconstruction…
Washington Post: If Johnson Was Impeached and Removed, Jeff Davis Might Have Been Executed
The Washington Post has an article speculating that if Andrew Johnson had been removed from office by the Senate at the conclusion of his impeachment…
“They hung three or four negroes nearly dead” The Ku Klux in Florence, Ala. Nov. 26, 1868
This account of a Ku Klux Klan occupation of Florence comes from the Democratic newspaper the Daily Phoenix. It was originally published in the Memphis…