The Savage South” is an image that retired UNC-Chapel Hill Lineberger Professor of the Humanities at Fred Hobson thinks and ...

Discover the 13 American colonies, their establishment by Great Britain, diverse characteristics, and their journey to unity ...

History Slavery Myths Debunked The Irish were slaves too; slaves had it better than Northern factory workers; black people fought for the Confederacy; and other lies, half-truths, and irrelevancies.

The Savage South” is an image that retired UNC-Chapel Hill Lineberger Professor of the Humanities Fred Hobson thinks and writes about. He tried to explain to me why, over the years from colonial times ...

In their book Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery, Robert W. Fogel and Stanley L. Engermen analyzed various elements of the slave economy including the role of slave traders ...

It’s long past time Americans face the truth about the Founding Fathers. A critique that places events being celebrated on ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. In the Colonies, slavery and resistance were restless bedfellows, as evidenced by several large-scale ...

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The Louisville-based Southern Baptist Theological Seminary on Wednesday disclosed its ties to slavery, detailing decades of racism and how its four founders owned more than 50 slaves.

SOUTHERN SLAVERY.; A Glance at Uncle Tom's Cabin. BY A SOUTHERNER. SECOND PAPER. Share full article June 28, 1853 The New York Times Archives ...

The importation of slaves into the United States was banned in 1808, by which time between 300,000-500,000 had been imported. Subsequent slaves were nearly all born in the United States. By 1800, ...