Category: White Supremacy
Virginia Bar Association President (1903) Explains Why 15th Amendment Grant of Black Voting Rights Was a Mistake
We know that the 15th Amendment giving non-white men the right to vote was ratified in 1870. We also know that various state laws and…
How South Carolina Explained the Civil War & Reconstruction to Potential Immigrants in 1908
To encourage immigration from abroad, South Carolina published The Handbook of South Carolina in 1908. The book was designed to give foreigners considering a move…
University of South Carolina Gets New Historical Marker on the College & Reconstruction
At the start of the Martin Luther King Day weekend, the University of South Carolina celebrated its brief period of racial integration during Reconstruction with…
Did Civil War Era Southerners Really Think of Their States As Their Countries?
I engage with hundreds of people on social media in conversations about the Civil War and Reconstruction. One thing I have heard many times in…
Confederate Monument in Arlington National Cemetery to Be Removed-But What to Do With It?
One of the most controversial Confederate monuments is the massive one at Arlington National Cemetery outside of Washington D.C. For nearly a decade calls for…
A Third of the People Depicted in Art at the National Capitol in Washington are Enslavers
I have posted before about the Washington Post‘s study of slavery and the United States Capitol. Today the Post discusses the representation of slaveholders in…
Senator Clay Explained Why Alabama Seceded in His January 22, 1861 Speech Resigning from the Senate
Clement Claiborne Clay, was one of six Southern senators who gave speeches on January 21, 1861 resigning from the U.S. Senate. Clay’s speech was delivered…
Podcast on William Walker’s Attempt in 1860 to Spread American Slave System to Central America and Mexico
The podcast company Wondery has a series on the American “Filibuster” William Walker. Walker used terrorism and war to make himself “president” of Nicaragua right…
A Southern Belle Reflects on “the blessings American ‘slavery’ had brought to the…black men”
In her book A Belle of the Fifties the Confederate senator’s wife Virginia Clay wrote about slavery as though its principal purpose was to bring…
New Historical Marker to Be Erected at Site of Georgia’s 1868 Camilla Massacre
The Georgia Historical Society just approved a new state historical marker on the site of the 1868 Camilla Massacre. According to the news coverage of…
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