Search Results for: Civil War

The Consequences of USCT Soldiering

May 26, 2022May 25, 2022 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. Civil War, Pension System, reparations, United States Colored Infantry, United States Colored Troop, USCI, USCT

Solomon Wilson, a Thirty-First United States Colored Infantry (USCI) soldier, died in a regimental hospital on August 6, 1864. An

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Black Perspectives Summer Books Preview, Part II

April 28, 2022April 27, 2022 Robert Greene II Civil War, Great Migration, Katrina, Memory, Politics

Yesterday, Black Perspectives published part I of a Summer Books preview, covering a select number of books published in April

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The “Radical” King and a Usable Past

April 4, 2022April 3, 2022 Robert Greene II black intellectual history, black politics, Civil Rights Movement

Last September, Black Perspectives published a piece about Martin Luther King, Jr’s use of the year 1619 as a waypoint

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Northern Black People’s Freedom Struggle in the Nineteenth Century

March 21, 2022March 20, 2022 Holly A. Pinheiro, Jr. black lives matter, black protest, Resistance

During the mid-nineteenth-century, Black people collectively fought for racial equality and social justice within the U.S. The scholarship of historians,

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The African American Origins of Modern Asylum

March 9, 2022March 8, 2022 Sean Gallagher asylum, Canada, Diplomacy, escape, Haiti, Mexico

Harriet Tubman, living in Ontario, Canada for most of 1851 to 1861, told an abolitionist interviewing fugitive slaves north of

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