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Black Southerners

Black Confederates in Reconstruction Newspapers

By Shane Anderson

In an editorial published a little over a year after the Civil War ended, a Georgia newspaper writer expressed regret that the South had not accepted “the aid of the negroes” when it was offered.… »

  • Black Confederates
  • Black Southerners
  • Reconstruction
  • Shane Anderson

Free Black Slaveowners

By H.V. Traywick, Jr.

Dr. Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950), known as “The Father of Black History,” was born in Buckingham County, Virginia, the son of former slaves. He received his doctorate from Harvard, rose to prominence as a writer… »

  • Black Southerners
  • Carter G. Woodson
  • H.V. Traywick
  • Slavery
  • Southern History

The Barber of Natchez

By Vito Mussomeli

Review of The Barber of Natchez (LSU, 1954, 1973) edited by Edwin Adams Davis and William Ransom Hogan. Author’s Note: In 1938 a trove of documents dating from 1793 -1937, “over 60 volumes of account books,… »

  • Black Southerners
  • Book Review
  • Featured
  • Slavery
  • Southern History
  • Vito Mussomeli
  • William Johnson

Black Southern Support for Secession and War

By Shane Anderson

Sooner or later any student of the War for Southern Independence will run across discussion of “black Confederates,” which may well be the most controversial topic related to the war. From an objective standpoint it… »

  • Black Confederates
  • Black Southerners
  • Shane Anderson
  • War for Southern Independence

Black Southerners in American Wars

By Michael Martin

President Trump recently used his executive powers to designate a national monument to honor African Americans’ role as soldiers during the War Between the States. The monument will be a 380-acre site in Kentucky to… »

  • Black Southerners
  • Michael Martin
  • Southern Military Tradition

A Black Sugar Planter in the Old South

By Vito Mussomeli

A review of Andrew Durnford, A Black Sugar Planter in the Antebellum South by David O. Whitten, (Transaction Publishers, 1995). I In the year 1800 the Viceroyalty of New Spain was still intact, and Louisiana still… »

  • Agrarianism
  • Andrew Durnford
  • Black Southerners
  • Book Review
  • Featured
  • Slavery
  • Vito Mussomeli

The Black Confederate and the Teddy Bear

By Lunelle McCallister

Most people have never heard of Holt Collier – and those who have heard of the “Teddy Bear” may be surprised to learn about his history. Collier was born into slavery in Mississippi in 1848.… »

  • Black Southerners
  • Holt Collier
  • Lunelle McCallister
  • Teddy Roosevelt

David Duke Does Not Represent Conservative Louisiana

By James Ronald Kennedy

The perennial champion of racial division and hatred has, unfortunately, returned to Louisiana politics. Duke’s return will be a boon to his race-hustling counterparts on the left. The likes of Al Sharpton and the Southern… »

  • Black Southerners
  • Confederate Flag
  • James Ronald Kennedy
  • Southern Conservatism
  • War for Southern Independence
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  • Clyde Wilson
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  • 2020 Scholars Conference: Who Owns America?
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  • 2018 Scholars Conference: The Revival of Secession and State Nullification
  • 2018 Summer School: Southern Identity Through Southern Music
  • 2018 Scholars Conference: Attacking Confederate Monuments and its Meaning for America
  • 2017 Summer School: On Being Southern in an Age of Radicalism
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  • 2013 Scholars Conference: Music and the Southern Tradition
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  • 2012 Scholars Conference: The War Between the States: Other Voices Other Views
  • 2012 Summer School: The Greatness of Southern Literature III
  • 2011 Scholars Conference: The South and America’s Wars
  • 2011 Summer School: The Greatness of Southern Literature II
  • 2010 Scholars Conference: State Nullification Secession and the Human Scale of Political Order
  • 2010 Summer School: The Greatness of Southern Literature
  • 2009 Summer School: The Meaning and Legacy of Reconstruction
  • 2008 Summer School: Northern Anti-Slavery Rhetoric
  • 2007 Summer School: The Origin of Southern Identity and the Culture of the Old South
  • 2006 Summer School: The Southern Agrarian Tradition
  • 2005 Summer School: Re-Thinking Lincoln: The Man, The Myth, The Symbol, The Legacy
  • 2004 Summer School: The Southern Critique of Centralization and Nationalism: 1798-1861
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