A new biography of abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner
Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...
In Saratoga lecture, abolitionist Frederick Douglass criticized Quaker minister who said slaves better off than free Blacks
African-American social reformer, abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass was the country's most famous Black man of the ...
What Black history in pre-Civil War Cincinnati looked like, per a celebrated scholar
Carter G. Woodson, who started the precursor to Black History Month, wrote of Cincinnati’s Black history before the Civil War ...
Why America’s first Department of Education didn’t last
The brief experiment with a department of education was born in 1867 and enacted by Southern Democrat President Andrew ...
Black abolitionist Henry Highland Garnet, who lived on Long Island, helped shape the country's views on slavery
A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the ...
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Trump’s move to end birthright citizenship is an attempt to undo the Civil War
Foner refers to the Civil War, as had abolitionists at the time, as the “Second American Revolution.” For Black people, one might say it was the first. The amendment alone did not secure such ...
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Vermont African American Heritage Trail tells stories of Black history in the state
Consider visiting some of these sites to mark Black History Month or keep them in mind to travel to when the weather is ...
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'Capturing Life' Cincinnati photography film debuts on TV Feb. 16
WCET-TV and WPTD-TV to broadcast the one-hour film showing Greater Cincinnati at "the center for the development of American ...
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The History of Slavery in the United States From Beginning to End
With the first 20 Africans brought to Virginia in 1619, the United States initiated a labor system characterized by extreme ...
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Irish, African American connection linked by slavery, neighborhoods, tragedy
While historical tensions have been acknowledged, a shared solidarity and activism highlighted the relationship between ...