But in a 2024 study, we tackled this challenge by focusing on one of the few groups of Americans for whom such information exists: members of Congress. We found that legislators who are descendants of ...

They then research and create posters depicting prominent abolitionists and the tactics they used to advance the cause of ending slavery. In the 1800s, before the Civil War, if you were anti ...

Richard Kreitner's 'Fear No Pharaoh" unpacks the myths surrounding Jews and slavery in and around the Civil War and its ...

The system of slavery was grounded in violence ... I found roughly 70 violent incidents in the 30 years before the Civil War—and very often the incidents featured a Southerner trying to ...

often a bill of sale - bearing just the age and gender of the person sold - is the only record for an individual living in a pre-Civil War slave-holding state. The challenges of reaching back to ...

If Taylor's former slaves had received land in other parts ... However, state courts in pre-Civil War free states and border states, such as Kentucky, were often more progressive, said William ...

Actor Alec Baldwin warned his social media followers Tuesday that he believes the United States exists in a "pre-Civil War culture." "Boy, you can see now that we are in a pre-Civil War culture now ...

Slavery caused the Civil War — that is the bold ... to think and to engage. Before visitors even step inside, they're invited at the doors to drop a token into a box to say what they think ...

was "a concentration camp … established by Union soldiers to eradicate the slaves" during the Civil War. Some sources allege that "over 20,000 freed slaves were killed in one year in this ...

"And boy, you can see now that we are in a pre-Civil War culture now ... and cotton, and slavery, and Lincoln, and Robert E. Lee and so forth," Baldwin explained. "But I look at the politics ...

The Slave Haven Underground Railroad Museum, or the Burkle Estate, draws visitors back to the pre-Civil War era. The main house was once used as a shelter for slaves along the Underground Railroad.

“To speak as the slave would, to say that we are as happy for the Civil War as most Americans are for the Revolutionary War, is to rupture the narrative.” ...