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Waterloo Village New Jersey Canal Town During the Civil War

Waterloo Village State Historic Site is located in New Jersey’s Allamuchy Mountain State Park in Stanhope, N.J. It was the midway point on the 102…

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‘Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War’ by Roger Lowenstein Named a “Best” Book by Washington Post

‘Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War,’ by Roger Lowenstein was named one of the Washington Post’s “best”…

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“The main reliance…must be upon the black population” Coming to terms with free Black labor 1868

The Richmond Whig was a staunch opponent of Republican Reconstruction plans, but as this article indicates it could be realistic in its assessment of the…

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Posted in Economics Slavery

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….

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