Category: Women and Gender
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…
A Southern Belle Set a Child Molester Up as a Paragon of Christian Virtue for Black People
Virginia Clay-Cloptin was in her mid-30s when the Civil War began. The prominent wife of a United States senator who resigned from Congress when his…
Around the Web October 2022: Best of Civil War & Reconstruction Blogs and Social Media
Welcome back to our survey of the best of social media on the Civil War and Reconstruction over the last month. There was a big…
Harriet Tubman Bicentennial Events Organized for Juneteenth in Her Hometown of Auburn, N.Y.
The City of Auburn, N.Y. will highlight Harriet Tubman’s 200th Birthday during its Juneteenth celebration this year. In fact, U.S. News and World Reports names…
“Powerful Partnerships: Civil War-Era Couples” Opening in D.C. at National Portrait Gallery
The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will open a new exhibition of Civil War photography on July 1. “Powerful Partnerships: Civil War-Era Couples” is the title…
Metropolitan Museum of Art Changes Display of Enslaved Woman by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux
Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux created one of the best known European sculptures of an enslaved woman in the 19th Century. Called “Why Born Enslaved!,” the Metropolitan Museum…
WaPo Article on Labor Organizing Among Black Women Laundresses in the South Right After the End of Slavery
Kim Kelly has a new book coming out called Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor that includes a section of Black women…
Washington Post on Black “Son” of Jefferson Davis
The Washington Post had an interesting article today on a Black child whom has been depicted as Confederate President Jeff Davis’s adopted son. The photo…
Harriet Tubman Bicentennial Activities in Her Home Town of Auburn, N.Y. in 2022
2022 is the Bicentennial of Harriet Tubman’s birth. Last month the Washington Post had an interesting article on the celebration of Tubman’s birth at her…
Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later edited by Adam Domby and Simon Lewis
Freedoms Gained and Lost: Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later edited by Adam Domby and Simon Lewis, Published by Fordham University Press (2022) Freedoms…
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