Category: African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction
“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…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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