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A Presbyterian Pastor Gives Thanks for the Formation of the Confederacy Thanksgiving 1860

Rev. Benjamin Morgan Palmer was a Presbyterian pastor whose Thanksgiving 1860 sermon was notorious for the boost it gave to Secession. Here is some of…

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The King Cake of Mardi Gras Season and Reconstruction in New Orleans

Many Mardi Gras Season dinners often include a King Cake. The cake has a little plastic baby baked into it. The person getting the baby…

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New Orleans Lusher Charter School Changes Name to Get Rid of Association With Reconstruction Segregationist

The Lusher Charter School in New Orleans has been renamed the Willow School because the man after whom it was originally named was an architect…

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Celebrating the End of Reconstruction With a Mardi Gras Tribute to the Aryan Race

As white rule was being restored in state capitals across the South in 1877, the Krewe of Comus celebrated the alleged supremacy of the white…

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Mardi Gras Parade 1873-Darwin’s Missing Link Was Black and Grant Was a Bug!

You might think that Darwin’s Theory of Evolution was unpopular in the South, but in 1873 it was the theme of the city’s largest Mardi…

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Posted in Memory of Reconstruction Monuments White Supremacy White Terror

When the White League Militia Took Over New Orleans in 1874 It Pledged to End the “Stupid Africanization” of Government

The White League was one of the largest and most dangerous of the Reconstruction Era militias. It embraced the worldview of the Ku Klux Klan,…

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The White League Monument at Liberty Place in New Orleans

On September 13, 1891 the New Orleans newspapers announced that the following day there was to be a celebration on Canal Street on the anniversary…

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The White League Arms for Battle as Its Coup Draws Near

In September 1874 the City of New Orleans and nearby parishes saw the signs of an approaching military conflict. Street battles would not begin until…

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Confederate Veteran Says that End “of Slavery Is…Abolition of Labor” in July 1865

Alcibiade DeBlanc was an officer in the Confederate army during the Civil War. At the end of the conflict he became a leading spokesman for…

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Southern Newspaper Reflects on the Change in New Orleans Race Relations Caused by Union Occupation

Here is an interesting article on Union occupied/liberated New Orleans from a pro-Confederate newspaper in Texas. The article takes up nearly a full page in…

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