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 ...
The public can now join the remembrance of York County's slave families at cemetery site
Cultural and Heritage Museums opens the enslaved cemetery at Historic Brattonsville on Saturday, where hundreds of buried ...
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 ...
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Civil War’s 1st Black soldiers hailed from Sea Islands. Beaufort park will tell unsung story
An effort is afoot to tell the story of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers in a six-acre park between Boundary Street and Battery Creek ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
Archeologists unearth 1700s signs of British control in Florida after Spanish rule
The centuries-old city of St. Augustine is an enduring reminder of Spain’s long history in Florida, going back generations ...
Archeologists unearth signs from 1700s of British control in Florida after centuries of Spanish rule
The city of St. Augustine — with its centuries-old buildings and massive stone fort — is an enduring reminder of Spain’s ...
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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 ... like Benjamin — a politician and plantation innovator — and the Lehman Brothers, who ...