Category: Slavery
The New York Times Reviews New Harriet Tubman BioPic “Harriet”
Reviews are beginning to roll in for the new Harriet Tubman biopic “Harriet.” I will post excerpts and links to this Civil War and Reconstruction…
NY Times Looks at Facts and Myth in the New Film on the Life of Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman is both a famous historical figure and a woman whose legend has grown to the level of myth. A new film about her…
NY Times Publishes “Stories from Slavery” Submitted by Readers
The 1619 Project of the New York Times has a new installment today. In response to the series, African American families have been sending in…
Poll: How Much Does the History of Slavery Impact Modern African Americans?
A new survey from the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago shows that while older white Americans still question the long-term effects…
Freedom Under the Confiscation Act: What One Man’s Freedom Papers Tell Us About Black Resistance to Slavery
There was emancipation even before Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. The March 1862 Confiscation Act allowed the Union Army to free slaves who had been…
Washington Post on Slavery at the University of Virginia-It Was Everywhere!
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor has a book coming out next week that looks at the connection between Thomas Jefferson’s beloved University of Virginia and…
Confederate General Wade Hampton Wrote that Civil War Was Over Secession & Slavery
Wade Hampston was one of the wealthiest men in the South before the Civil War. He served the Confederacy as a top cavalry commander. After…
Slavery as Cause of the Civil War: “Revisionists,” “NeoRevisionists,” and “Fundamentalists”
I was reading James Oakes’s “The Great Divide” in the New York Review of Books He offered an interesting discussion of the role of 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…
Negroes Wanted! Want Ads for Slaves in the Last Years of Slavery
We sometimes hear it said that slavery in the South would have died out even without the Civil War. If you read Southern newspapers right…
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