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Drew Gilpin Faust Reviews Two Books on Political Education of Slaves and Interracial Relationships
The New York Review of Books has two reviews written by prominent Civil War historian Drew Gilpin Faust of new books on enslaved African Americans….
In 1863 When a Black Man Refused to be Whipped Was He a Murderer if He Killed His Enslaver?
Here is an incident that I read about recently set during the early period of Reconstruction while the Civil War was still raging. I found…