Tag Archives: Abolition

BookChat with Brian Luskey, Author of Men is Cheap

Posted on April 2, 2020 by Chris Mackowski

I was pleased to spend some time recently with a new book by historian Brian Luskey, associate professor of history at West Virginia University. Luskey is the author of Men Is Cheap: Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War … Continue reading →

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“But with blood” – John Brown, Violence, and Abolition in Kansas

Posted on October 23, 2019 by Kristen Pawlak

On a cold December morning in 1859 in a jail cell in Charles Town, Virginia, John Brown reflected on his role in the desperate fight for abolition. Less than two months prior, he had led a small army of 21 … Continue reading →

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“But his soul goes marching on.” Brown, Douglass, and the Radicals

Posted on October 21, 2019 by Sean Michael Chick

Today abolitionism is praised with few reservations, but it was a fringe movement in the 1830s. Its followers took a lonely moral stand. William Lloyd Garrison in 1831 declared “I am in earnest. I will not equivocate – I will … Continue reading →

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October The Sixteenth – “Alive With Ghosts Today”

Posted on October 16, 2019 by Sarah Kay Bierle

Perhaps You will remember John Brown. John Brown Who took his gun, Took twenty-one companions, White and black, Went to shoot your way to freedom Where two rivers meet And the hills of the North And the hills of the … Continue reading →

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John Brown’s Raid 160th: An Introduction

Posted on October 13, 2019 by Emerging Civil War

One hundred and sixty years ago this month (October 2019), twenty-two men embarked on a mission that shocked the nation and accelerated the rush toward Civil War. The event is now popularly called “John Brown’s Raid” and is viewed as … Continue reading →

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Did Frederick Douglass Influence “The Blind Memorandum”?

Posted on August 23, 2019 by Sarah Kay Bierle

The timing. The national circumstances. The reports of what two great men discussed. It raises the question: did Frederick Douglass influence Abraham Lincoln’ decision to draft the document referred to as “The Blind Memorandum”? On August 23, 1864 – one … Continue reading →

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General Francis Barlow and The Letters He Destroyed on July 1, 1863

Posted on July 1, 2019 by Sarah Kay Bierle

General Francis C. Barlow placed his division of the Union XI Corps on a rise of high ground, north of the town of Gettysburg. Without adequate reinforcements to anchor a defensive line, his exposed troops took the brunt of the … Continue reading →

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June 28, 1864: “Hereby, Repealed”

Posted on June 28, 2019 by Sarah Kay Bierle

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section three and five of an act entitled “An act respecting fugitives from justice and persons escaping from the service … Continue reading →

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On This Day: Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Posted on June 5, 2019 by Emerging Civil War

Did you know…? On June 5, 1851, the first installation of Uncle Tom’s Cabin appeared in The National Era – an abolitionist paper. The story would run for forty installation, and in 1852, it was published in book form. Harriet … Continue reading →

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Question of the Week: 2/11-2/17/19

Posted on February 11, 2019 by Emerging Civil War

Who is your favorite abolitionist from the Antebellum or Civil War years? Why?

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