Black Soldiers in the Civil War
Despite a federal law banning black soldiers from serving in the U.S. Army, they nonetheless fought during the Civil War…
Clip: Emancipation During the Civil War
Despite a federal law banning black soldiers from serving in the U.S. Army, they nonetheless fought during the Civil War…
Eric Foner talked about the challenges of establishing civil rights for freedmen in the Reconstruction period and beyond…
Historian Seymour Drescher talked about slavery being abolished throughout the British Empire in 1833. He noted that the…
Professor Jenny Wahl argued that the institution of slavery was essentially an economic phenomenon. She used PowerPoint …