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“There is not one of you a slave now”: Escaped Union Prisoners Announce Freedom in South Carolina
While Juneteenth started as a celebration of the announcement of emancipation in Galveston, Texas in 1865, other accounts of freedom announcements to enslaved communities also offer joyful moments during the Civil War years. In his published narrative Seven Months a … Continue reading
Book Review: On Juneteenth
On Juneteenth By Annette Gordon-Reed Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2021, $15.95 Reviewed by Jon Tracey Thanks to current discussions of inequality and increased reflection on the past, Juneteenth has grown from a Texas tradition to one that has garnered attention across … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review
Tagged Book Review, civil war memory, emancipation, Emancipation Proclamation, Gordon Granger, history vs. memory, Juneteenth, Memory, race, Slavery, Texas
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“The Escapes…Are Very Numerous”
One hundred and sixty years ago, Benjamin Butler enjoyed his new rank as major general of volunteers, a result of occupying Baltimore and helping to secure the transportation and communication lines into Washington D.C. His new assignment at the end … Continue reading
Posted in 160th Anniversary, Primary Sources, Slavery
Tagged 160th Anniversary, Benjamin Butler, contraband, emancipation, Fortress Monroe, Slavery
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The Paradox of the Lost Cause: Part II
Emerging Civil War welcomes back guest contributor Adam Burke…[see Part I here] Slavery’s effects on Southern industry and manufacturing devastated the Confederacy’s military manpower capacity. The antebellum North enjoyed dramatic economic and population expansion. From 1840 to 1850, population growth … Continue reading
Posted in Antebellum South, Economics, Memory
Tagged Economics, emancipation, free labor, Howell Cobb, Immigration, Lost Cause, Manpower, Slavery
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“By His Aid was that Flag Preserved”: The Shenandoah Valley’s African Americans’ Support for the Union War Effort
ECW is pleased to welcome back our friend Jonathan A. Noyalas, director of the McCormick Civil War Institute at Shenandoah University. This article is adapted from portions of Noyalas’ recently released Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian, Slavery, USCT
Tagged 11th Pennsylvania Infantry, 13th Pennsylvania Infantry, 2nd Massachusetts Infantry, African Americans, Darkesville, emancipation, George Crook, Henry K. Young, Henry Pancake, John Mosby, Jonathan Noyalas, Joseph Kershaw, Jubal Early, Kabletown, McCormick Civil War Institute, Mosby's Guerills, Nathaniel P. Banks, Phill Sheridan, Rebecca Wright, Richard Blazer, Robert Gould Shaw, Shenandoah University, Shenandoah Valley, Slavery and Freedom in the Shenandoah Valley during the Civil War Era, Thomas Coles, Thomas Laws, United States Colored Troops, W.U. Saunders, Wilfred Cutshaw
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Learning Civil War History: The Pandemic Perspective
On January 18, 2021, I began teaching a Civil War history class at Penn State, where most instruction is currently taking place via the (now) ubiquitous Zoom platform. I have been fortunate to teach the department’s Civil War survey in … Continue reading
Posted in Emerging Civil War
Tagged Battle of Gettysburg, Chris Mackowski, emancipation, Emerging Civil War, Glory, online teaching, Penn State, teaching
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John Wolcott Phelps’ Emancipation Proclamation
The voyage of the U.S. Frigate Constitution ended at Ship island, a barrier island off the Gulf coast of Mississippi in December, 1861. Prior to disembarking, Brigadier General John Wolcott Phelps gathered all passengers on deck and recited one of … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership--Federal, Slavery
Tagged Abolition, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Butler, Edwin Stanton, emancipation, john wolcott phelps, refugees, Slavery
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The Wealthiest Slave in Savannah: Rachel Brownfield and the True Price of Freedom
ECW welcomes back guest author David T. Dixon Charley Lamar was always itching for a fight. Once arrested for illegally importing slaves, he quipped that “a man of influence can do as he pleases.” Lucrative profits from blockade running led … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian, Slavery
Tagged Civilian, David T. Dixon, emancipation, Rachel Brownfield, Savannah Georgia, Slavery
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BookChat with Cody Marrs, author of Not Even Past
As a big fan of the Civil War in pop culture, I was especially looking forward to Cody Marrs’ new book Not Even Past: The Stories We Keep Telling About the Civil War, which deals with the ways “the story … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Civil War in Pop Culture, Lincoln, Memory, Politics, Reconstruction, Slavery
Tagged Alice Fahs, Birth of a Nation, BookChat, Cody Marrs, D. W. Griffith, David Blight, Edward Pollard, emancipation, Evelyn Scott, Fire on the Mountain, Gary Gallagher, Gone with the Wind, Johns Hopkins University Press, Jubilee, Lioncoln, Margaret Walker, Mark Twain, Memory, Not Even Past, Reconstruction, Red Badge of Courage, Stephen Crane, Terry Bisson, The Lost Cause, The Wave, W.E.B. DuBois, William Faulkner
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Granger’s Juneteenth Orders and the Limiting of Freedom
Juneteenth is recognized as the symbolic end of slavery in the United States. Galveston, Texas, held out as a Confederate stronghold after Robert E. Lee’s surrender at Appomattox. Once occupied by Union forces, Major General Gordon Granger established his headquarters … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Memory, Newspapers, Primary Sources, Reconstruction, Slavery
Tagged cotton, emancipation, Galveston, Gordon Granger, Juneteenth, Slavery
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