Category: 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…
A New Monument to Emancipation in a Small Virginia Town
Hundreds of Southern towns and cities erected Confederate statues in the decades after the Civil War. Almost no statues or monuments marked the military service…
1619 Podcast: Slavery and the Birth of American Music
The 1619 project at the New York Times has another new podcast. This one looks at slavery and the birth of American music. This one…
NY Times 1619 Podcast: The Economy Slavery Built
Episode 2 is up of the New York Times new podcast series on slavery. You can listen to it here.
Podcast from Slate Gabfest on NY Times’s 1619 Slavery Series
The new 1619 Project put out by the New York Times has both been incredibly popular and very controversial. The project observes the 400th Anniversary…
NY Times “1619” Slavery Podcast
The New York Times’s series marking 400 years of slavery in America is titled “1619.” The series is drawing a lot of praise and some…
NY Times Offers a Brief History of Slavery in the U.S.
The New York Times’s new 1619 series offers a brief history of slavery that you may want to read. From the article: Sometime in 1619, a…
Miseducating “Dixie Children”: A Confederate Textbook Discusses Race 1863
During the Civil War several education books were printed to to teach Confederate children the worldview of their elders. This book appeared in 1863. Below…
NY Times: Why Can’t We Teach Slavery Right in American Schools?
The New York Times continues its challenging series 1619 today with an article on the misteaching of slavery in American schools. You can find the article…
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