Category: White Supremacy Apologetics
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…
“Seymour & Blair-A White Man’s Government” & “Useless Grant” Democratic Slogans of 1868
In the 1868 Presidential Election, the Democratic Party’s Northern and Southern wings were reunited for the first time in eight years. The reunited party held…
Article in Jacobin on the Memory of the Civil War and Reconstruction
Robert Greene II, a PhD student at the University of South Carolina, has a brief article in Jacobin on the memory of the Civil War…
The Dangerous Idea that Only White People Can Govern Themselves: Horace Greeley
Adam Serwer at The Atlantic Magazine has an interesting article this week on the persistent American idea that only white people are capable of governing…
Resource-After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Low Country Carolinas
I recently learned about this free on-line resource After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Low Country Carolinas. You can access it here. This…
I’ve Heard of Ida B. Wells. Why Lie and Say She Is Unknown?
There is a meme going around about a well-known African American journalist. I reproduce it below. Facebook pulled the meme because it is obvious fake…
Why Racial Separation Was Necessary for Alabama Schools to Avoid Discrimination Against Whites: Alabama Convention 1867
Most blacks had been denied any chance for a formal education during slavery. With Emancipation came the opportunity for some to attend classes at schools…
In Defense of a White Man’s Government in Alabama January 1868
The Montgomery Advertiser January 14, 1868 gives an insight into what White Southern conservatives were fighting for during Reconstruction. It was “A White Man’s Government.” I…
Remembering Racist Historian of Reconstruction William Dunning at His Columbia University Alma Mater
William Dunning was a Columbia Man. He was an undergrad, a graduate student, and a professor there, after having been expelled from Dartmouth as a…