Thursday, May 7, 2015

Douglass reflecting on War and Recontruction

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In an article he wrote for The Atlantic, December 16th, 1866 ed. famed abolitionist and writer Fredrick Douglass wrote an analysis of both ...
Friday, May 1, 2015

Address of a Convention of Negroes in Alexandria Virginia

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The members of the Convention of Colored citizens of the State of Virginia met in August of 1865 to discuss the new problems that were fa...

Black Oppresion Continues After War Ends

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Civil War America: Voices from the Home Front, by James Marten tells the history of the American Civil War from the Civ...

Violence Starts Early in Texas

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On the 7th of September in 1867 the Assistant Commissioner for the state of Texas wrote a letter to his commander detailing a list of incide...

Slave to Sharecropper: The Labor Contract of John Dawson

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For our blog assignment I researched a primary source via pbs.org. I found a slave to sharecropper labor contract produced on January 18...

A former Slave's experience of Reconstruction..

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My Primary source is a former slave, Henry Adams, speaking to the Senate 15 years later, in 1880, about the unfair trea...

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Circular No. 3 - General Rufus Saxton Abandoned Lands and Freedmen Farmers May 22, 1865     In reading through this circular, it becomes ve...

Frederick Douglass's artile "Protection of the Ballot"

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The primary source i found is a book Voices from the Reconstruction Years 1865-1877 by Glenn M. Linden , filled with recordings of letters,...

Freedmens Bureau List of Outrages Perpetrated by the Whites Upon The Freedmen in the State of Tennessee from April 1865 to March 1866

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After spending a few hours browsing the web for various sources that dealt with the experiences of freed blacks after emancipation, I ran...
Thursday, April 30, 2015

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When doing research on particular subject, there is no better source to go to than the subject itself. I spent a good chunk of time researc...