Category: White Supremacy Apologetics
Book Review: This War Ain’t Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal by Nina Silber
This War Ain’t Over: Fighting the Civil War in New Deal by Nina Silber published by Univerity of North Carolina Press (2018) 234 pages. Hardcover $32.95…
Resisting Carpet-Baggery And Mongrel Reconstruction in Virginia July 1868
In July 1868 Virginia was considering ratification of a new Constitution in line with the requirements imposed for its Reconstruction as a state and for…
Seeing Reconstruction in the Fall of 1868 Through the Eyes of The “Weekly Caucasian” Newspaper from Missouri
As many of you probably know, the Weekly Caucasian newspaper from Lexington, Missouri was a staunchly Democratic newspaper. Supporting the virtues of the Confederacy, applying…
Oppose Salmon P. Chase “The High Priest of Negro Suffrage” for President June 1868
The cartoon above mocks the attempt by Tammany Hall Democrats to nominate the pro-civil rights Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Salmon P. Chase as…
Democrat Explains Why Southern Whites Resist “Black Rule” July 16, 1868
Allen Granberry Thurman (November 13, 1813 – December 12, 1895) is hardly a household name today, but in the mid-19th Century he was a well-known…
“Irishmen And Germans Read This” The Mongrel Party’s Attack on Immigrants June, 1868
With the election of 1868, Democratic propaganda combined immigrant fears of the latent Know Nothingism of some Republicans and white immigrants’ concerns about their own…
When the Great Historian of Reconstruction W.E.B. Du Bois Got a White Supremacist Laughed Off the Stage
W.E.B. Du Bois was the seminal figure in modern Reconstruction studies. The brilliant intellectual was one of the most important historians of the American experience….
Arguing Against Civil Rights in 1875 “You have not the power to make him white, and he never will be satisfied”
Thomas Whitehead was a former Confederate officer who was elected to Congress from Virginia in 1872. In 1875 he gave a speech opposing the Civil…
Grant Will Turn the South into “the howling wilderness of African barbarism” July 1868
Yesterday I posted an attack on U.S. Grant from the political left in which abolition activist Anna Dickinson went after Grant’s supposedly soft support for…
NY Times: The Impact of Forced Medical Research on Slaves on Modern Medicine
Illustration: Escaped slave John Brown The next installment of the New York Times’s new series commemorating the 400th Anniversary of the arrival of the first…
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