Civil War Humanitarian Crisis

From the UK Guardian , "How the end of slavery led to starvation and death for millions of black Americans:  In the brutal chaos that f...

Civil War Contraband Camps of North Carolina

In the illustration above, Union troops distribute clothes to a contraband camp in New Bern, NC. [Image: North Carolina Office of Archives a...

Philip Morgan: Early American Slave Culture

T.H. Breen reviews Philip Morgan's book "Slave Counterpoint" on 19 July 1998, in the  New York Times  -- In 1754 an American t...

Ira Berlin: Slavery in America

Q - How does"Generations" differ from other histories about slavery? A - Most of the studies of slavery have concentrated on the r...

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Slave Insurrections as Insurgencies

Stono's Rebellion -- September 9, 1739 Stono's rebellion was only one among the 250 rebellions documented in the Colonies and later...

Booker T. Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, and the White House Dinner That Shocked a Nation

In 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt invited African-American educator Booker T. Washington, who had become close to the president, to dine...