Author: Patrick Young
Arguing Against Civil Rights in 1875 “You have not the power to make him white, and he never will be satisfied”
Thomas Whitehead was a former Confederate officer who was elected to Congress from Virginia in 1872. In 1875 he gave a speech opposing the Civil…
The Ordeal of the Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction by Mark Wahlgren Summers
The Ordeal of the Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction by Mark Wahlgren Summers published by the University of North Carolina Press (2014) 522 pages Hardcover…
Miseducating “Dixie Children”: A Confederate Textbook Discusses Race 1863
During the Civil War several education books were printed to to teach Confederate children the worldview of their elders. This book appeared in 1863. Below…
NY Times: Why Can’t We Teach Slavery Right in American Schools?
The New York Times continues its challenging series 1619 today with an article on the misteaching of slavery in American schools. You can find the article…
Grant Will Turn the South into “the howling wilderness of African barbarism” July 1868
Yesterday I posted an attack on U.S. Grant from the political left in which abolition activist Anna Dickinson went after Grant’s supposedly soft support for…
Anna Dickinson: Don’t Hide Principles of Equality Behind Grant’s Cigar Smoke on Votes for Blacks June 1868
Anna Dickinson was a teen sensation as an abolitionist public speaker in the late 1850s. During the Civil War she became the first woman to…
Database of Want Ads by Former Slaves Seeking Information on Forcibly Separated Families
A new database of want ads of freed slaves published during Reconstruction searching for family members from whom they had been separated during slave times…
Comedian Adam Conover Interviews Christy Coleman of the American Civil War Museum on Reconstruction
The latest episode of FACTUALLY! hosted by comedian Adam Conover is an interview with Christy Coleman of the American Civil War Museum in Richmond. They…
The First Elected Black Lt. Governor Visits the U.S. Congress & Is Promptly Insulted
Oscar James Dunn (pictured above) was the first African American elected Lt. Governor in the United States. In 1869 he visited the United States Congress…
NY Times: The Impact of Slavery on the Conditions of Modern American Workers
The New York Times has a promising new series called “1619” that marks the 400th Anniversary of the first African slaves being brought to Jamestown….