Many people are familiar with the Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers Project of the 1930s. While some historians reject them for what has been called gross inaccuracies due in…
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The Week in Review at the Abbeville Institute, Jan 4-8, 2016, hosted by Brion McClanahan. Topics include Black slaveonwers, Black Confederates, Revisionism, and Political Correctness.
This articles was originally published as Chapter 27 in Understanding the War Between the States, Howard Ray White and Clyde Wilson, eds., 2015. Students will be surprised to learn of…
This essay is the introduction to Larry Koger’s book, Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860. Black slaveholding is a historical phenomenon which has not been…
A review of Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia, by Ervin L. Jordan, Jr., Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1995, 447 pages; and Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slavemasters…
This article was originally printed at TheRoot.com on March 4, 2013. One of the most vexing questions in African-American history is whether free African Americans themselves owned slaves. The short…
Many black Southerners headed North in the early twentieth century in search of a better life. Most didn’t find it. Now, many are coming home. The Christian Science Monitor recently…
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