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Saturday, May 16, 2015

River of Dark Dreams: The Mississippi Valley Cotton Kingdom

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From the Wall Street Journal Bookshelf,   " When the South Was Flat: The brutal "slave-ocracy" along the Mississippi w...
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Between Slavery and Capitalism

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Between Slavery and Capitalism: The Legacy of Emancipation in the American South; Martin Ruef Princeton University Press   --  At th...
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Friday, April 17, 2015

New Orleans Slavery Exhibit At The Williams Research Center

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As reported in the Insurance Journal , in an article entitled, "Insurance Policy Included in Harrowing New Orleans Slavery Exhibit...
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Monday, March 16, 2015

Freedom Summer in Mississippi 1964

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As reviewed in the New York Times , "A Few Hot Months of Solidarity and Violence: ‘Freedom Summer’ on PBS Looks Back at 1964,...
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Saturday, February 28, 2015

The Slave in the Dismal Swamp

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The Slave in the Dismal Swamp by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow In dark fens of the Dismal Swamp The hunted Negro lay; He saw the fire o...
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Friday, February 27, 2015

Unholy: The Slaves Bible by David Charles Mills

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Unholy: The Slaves Bible by David Charles Mills Watch David Charles Mills, author of "Unholy: The Slaves Bible," read excerp...
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Thursday, February 26, 2015

An Account of Post Civil War Reconstruction

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A Book review from the Providence Journal , “'The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America’s Most Progressiv...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Professor William Pettigrew: How to Place Slavery into British Identity

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From Gresham College on 14 May 2014, "How to Place Slavery into British Identity," by Professor William Pettigrew, University o...
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Sunday, February 22, 2015

Cotton's Global History

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Cotton Pickers , oil painting on panel by William Aiken Walker Adam Hochschild reviewed Sven Beckert's new book entitled The Emp...
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