Category: Slavery
White Power: Policing American Slavery by Gautham Rao
White Power: Policing American Slavery by Gautham Rao Published by University of North Carolina Press (2026) White Power is not strictly about Reconstruction, in fact…
Jerry Rescue Monument Syracuse, New York
One of the most publicized acts of resistance to slavery took place in Syracuse, New York on October 1, 1851. On that date, William “Jerry”…
The Immigrant Story Behind Twelve Years a Slave
The new film Twelve Years a Slave is a narrative of a real slave’s life. Last year’s Django Unchained was a fantasy of a slave’s…
Historian Compares Resistance to ICE Raids with Resistance to Fugitive Slave Act
This article originally appeared on July, 2019. Kate Masur, associate professor of history at Northwestern University, is one of our country’s leading historians of the…
Drew Gilpin Faust Reviews Two Books on Political Education of Slaves and Interracial Relationships
The New York Review of Books has two reviews written by prominent Civil War historian Drew Gilpin Faust of new books on enslaved African Americans….
Richmond Burning: The German Immigrant and Black Troops Who Saved the City
Join The Immigrants’ Civil War on Facebook Early on the morning of April 3, 1864, immigrant Major General Godfrey Weitzel wrote, “a little before two o’clock I…
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati Ohio
Before the Civil War, many escaped enslaved African Americans made their way to freedom by crossing the Ohio River from Kentucky into the State of…
White Haven U.S. Grant’s St. Louis Missouri Home
White Haven is the St. Louis home where Ulysses S. Grant lived from 1854 until 1859. After Grant graduated from West Point, he was stationed…
Camp Nelson National Monument Kentucky Where Colored Troops Trained and Their Families Were Expelled
Last month I posted pictures of a whole lot of Civil War and Reconstruction sites from a Confederate cemetery in Columbus, Ohio, to General Grant’s…
Lee’s Army Moves Towards Gettysburg: Black Refugees Flee
When Confederate troops began slipping west and north of the Union army for their June 1863 invasion of Pennsylvania, no one worried more about the…