Convict Leasing After Slavery
Slavery ended in 1865. But many Black Southerners remained unfree laborers under the convict leasing system.
Slavery ended in 1865. But many Black Southerners remained unfree laborers under the convict leasing system.
Sojourner Truth, Anna Julia Cooper, the National Association of Colored Women, and the foundations of Black women’s struggles today.
Enslaved refugees sought freedom in Union contraband camps during the American Civil War.
From daring Civil War hero to Reconstruction-era political pioneer, the life of former slave Robert Smalls was as amazing as it was significant.
Much of what is widely embraced about the famous activist and orator is mythology, while the truth lives in the shadows.
How race has shaped our memory of the Civil War and Emancipation
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