Category: Slavery
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…
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.