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 ...
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 ...
Abolitionists played key role in the establishment of the Columbus Public Library in 1873
Many of the early leaders, staff and financial supporters of Columbus Public Library when it opened in 1873 were ...
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Why Jews were like everyone else — only more so — during slavery and the Civil War
Richard Kreitner's "Fear No Pharoah" gives an honest account of how Jews resisted, ignored and even championed American ...
Harriet Tubman fought slavery. Most of the men on US paper currency had ties to it
A US Senator wants to replace Andrew Jackson, who kept scores of slaves at his Tennessee plantation, on the front of the $20 ...
Story of escaped slave, his adventures to be portrayed at Torrington Historical Society
Actor Kevin Johnson will portray man who was captured by pirates, later became a janitor at Hartford's Trinity College for 50 ...
Obscure British island home to less than 30 people with dark past of piracy and slavery
One of Britain’s lesser-known islands, just 10 miles from Devon, has a dark and unknown history filled with links to piracy, ...
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Why Jews were like everyone else — only more so — during slavery and the Civil War
A Chicago rabbi, Liebmann Adler, welcomed the conclusion of the Civil War and the end to slavery, a “disaster in an otherwise blessed land.” Emma Mordecai, a Virginia Jew, prepared ...
Newport's founder left slaves at least $1.7M in today's dollars. Can descendants collect?
One researcher argues a general's 200-year-old Kentucky will, and others like it, support the case for present-day ...
Book Review: ‘Lincoln’s Peace’ offers lessons for these times from the Civil War
"Lincoln’s Peace" examines the difficulty in turning wartime victory into solving the political and social problems that led ...
'Fear No Pharaoh': US Jews and slavery – from implicated to appalled - review
In his book Fear No Pharaoh, Richard Kreitner examines the reactions of six Jewish Americans to slavery and the Civil War.
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Most Historically Accurate Civil War Movies, Ranked
The Civil War was an extremely divisive time in American history that split the North and South into the Union and the ...