Holly O. Fox life

Isaiah T. Montgomery Endorses the Disenfranchisement of Blacks

Isaiah Montgomery, former slave of the Confederate President Jefferson Davis and founder of the Mound Bayou Negro settlement in Mississippi....
Political Disenfranchisement Southern-style

White Protective Associations Traditionalists, such as the Dunning School, argued that white protective associations arose in response to th...
The Gilded Age Railroad-Building

From Slate , "The Transcontinental Travesty: What Gilded Age railroad-building frenzy reveals about American greed," by Donald Wor...
Fila Brasileiro Dog or Slave-hunter

Other evidence of 19th century just as surprising , the origins of the Fila Brasileiro . Here's the primary use of this dog out of the o...
Cotton and the Civil War

From Mississippi History Now , "Cotton and the Civil War," by Eugene R. Dattel, on July 2008-- If slavery was the corner stone of...
Charles Sumner on the Barbarism of Slavery

From the New York Times , "FROM WASHINGTON.; Charles Sumner on the Barbarism of Slavery. The Social Tendencies of the Institution Argu...
Crockford’s Club: How a Fishmonger Built a Gambling Hall and Bankrupted the British Aristocracy

From the Smithsonian Magazine , 29 November 2012, "Crockford’s Club: How a Fishmonger Built a Gambling Hall and Bankrupted the British ...
Brazil: Sanitation for All

As reported by Inter Press Service , "Brazil: Sanitation for All...in 115 Years," by Fabiana Frayssinet, Dec 3 , 2007 (IPS) --RIO...
Fabrice Monteiro's Amazing Images of Brown. Fugitive Slaves In Slave Torture Devices

"Marrons. Les esclaves fugitifs" (Brown Runaway Fugitive Slaves) photographed by Fabrice Monteiro "Brown. Fugitive Slave,...
Slave Life in Rio

Slave Auction, Rio de Janeiro, 1859-186 1 Standing on a chair, the auctioneer dominates the scene while an enslaved woman with a child cling...