Search Results for: Civil War

Birmingham in Five Acts

January 14, 2016January 14, 2016 Brandon Byrd Civil Rights Movement, convict leasing, mass incarceration, South

Beginnings John T. Milner had big goals for a new railroad connecting north and south Alabama. The man just named

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Abolition in the New Year

January 7, 2016January 6, 2016 Chernoh Sesay Jr. Absalom Jones, religion, Richard Allen, slave trade, slavery

Far more people probably know the importance of January 1, 1863 than they do the significance of January 1, 1808.

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Black Intellectual History Panels at #AHA16

January 5, 2016January 6, 2016 Chris Cameron

We here at AAIHS are getting excited for this week’s American Historical Association conference. On the program you will find

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When Slaves Go on Strike: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction 80 Years Later

December 28, 2015December 28, 2015 Guy Emerson Mount Activism, black politics, Politics, reconstruction, W.E.B. Du Bois

Slaves freed themselves.  With this majestic assertion in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois all but cemented Black Reconstruction as one of

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How the alliance between slaves and abolitionists ended slavery

December 21, 2015December 19, 2015 Patrick Rael 13th Amendment, William Lloyd Garrison

One hundred fifty years ago this December, the U.S. completed its long process of abolishing slavery. Why did the nation

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