Category: African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction
Resource: Bios of Virginia’s Black Reconstruction Era Legislators
A new database of Black Legislators from Reconstruction Era Virginia is available. You can read about it here. You can find short bios of the…
Video: Professor Jonathan Holloway of Yale University on African Americans from Emancipation to Reconstruction
Over the coming months I hope to give you access to video talks on Reconstruction by some of the experts in the field. If you…
States Considered Giving Blacks Right to Sue for Being Held as Slaves after Emancipation Proclamation?
William Dunning in his Essays on the Civil War and Reconstruction and Related Topics (1897, 2nd ed. 1904) says that at the various Southern state Constitutional…
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