Devil's Punchbowl refugee camp for freed slaves during Civil War is misdescribed as 'concentration camp'
The Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black ...
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Slavery caused the Civil War
Slavery caused the Civil War — that is the bold, and factual, statement that opens the American Civil War Museum's latest exhibition, "The Impending Crisis: How Slavery Caused the Civil War." ...
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Why Jews were like everyone else — only more so — during slavery and the Civil War
General Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox came the day before the first night of Passover 1865. A Chicago rabbi, Liebmann Adler, welcomed the conclusion of the Civil War and the end to slavery, ...
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How an Auburn man started a pro-North newspaper in London during the Civil War
In the early years of the Civil War, Knight ran the only pro-Union newspaper published in Europe ... Or, in other words, is it possible for 400,000 slave owners who have succeeded in enslaving ...
Unsung story of Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers from Sea Islands to be told at Beaufort park
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and ...
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Book Review: ‘Lincoln’s Peace’ offers lessons for these times from the Civil War
Had the Union maintained a larger and stronger post-Civil War occupying army, could it have banished all the residual slavery ...