Posted in African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction White Supremacy Apologetics

“We Must Escape Equality With the Negroes” The Fondest Hope for White Virginians in the New Year of 1869

The reason for opposing the Reconstruction of Virginia was the forced integration of the races, according to this article in the Petersburg Daily Express. The…

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Posted in African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction Land Reform

New Podcast from NY Times 1619 Project on African American Land Ownership During Reconstruction & Jim Crow

The new 1619 podcast from The New York Times looks at the struggle by freed slaves to obtain land after emancipation and the continuing effort…

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Posted in African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction Book Reviews Freedmen's Bureau

Too Great a Burden to Bear: The Struggle and Failure of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Texas by Christopher B. Bean

Too Great a Burden to Bear: The Struggle and Failure of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Texas by Christopher B. Bean published by Fordham University Press (2016)…

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Posted in African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction Civil War

Atlantic Magazine Reporter on His Three Month Journey Through the Post-War South 1865

The February 1866 Atlantic Magazine published this report of a three month trip by journalist Sidney Andrews through the post-war South. Andrews described the extent…

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Posted in African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction Civil Rights Acts Suffrage Videos

Video Panel Discussion on Black Suffrage During Reconstruction

C-Span has an interesting panel discussion from the November 2016 Lincoln Forum. The panel discusses African American suffrage during Reconstruction. It looks at broader issues…

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Posted in African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction Slavery

How Union Soldiers Brought Slavery Back to Ohio in 1862

I was unaware of this until I read about it in an essay by by Christopher Barr in Crossing the Deadlines. Here are the facts…

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Posted in African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction USCT

New York Peace Democrats: Reasons for Opposing Recruiting Black Union Troops

We don’t often get the full scope of reasons for opposing the recruitment of Black soldiers. This is the view from the Journal of Commerce…

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Posted in Abolitionists African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction Frederick Douglass Memory of Reconstruction

Book Review: Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight

Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom by David W. Blight published by Simon & Schuster 913 pages (2018) $37.50 Hardcover $14.99 Kindle ​ David Blight has…

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Posted in African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction Memory of Reconstruction

Confederate Heritage and Black History in Tension: Panel Discussion

Here is a wide-ranging discussion of the interplay of Confederate Heritage and Black History in Tension. Here is a description of the panel: Published on…

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Posted in African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction Book Reviews Texas Women and Gender

Freedom After Slavery: The Black Experience and the Freedmen’s Bureau in Reconstruction Texas by Lavonne Jackson Leslie

Freedom After Slavery: The Black Experience and the Freedmen’s Bureau in Reconstruction Texas by Lavonne Jackson Leslie (2012) $26.95 Hardcover, $16.96 Paper, $3.99 Kindle. ​ I…

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