Slavery

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Robert Smalls pictured between 1870-1880.
The Remarkable Life of Robert Smalls
Cover of War is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War by Edward J. Blum and John Matsui.
Forces of Good and Evil
Cover of Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders by Dennis C. Rasmussen
Such a Disappointment
Emancipation Memorial Statue
Emancipation by What Means?
American Anti-Slavery Society, 1837
Revisiting Long Histories of the Reparations Debate
The Slave Trade by Auguste Francois Biard (1833).
When Free Trade Meant Something Else
Feminist activists demonstrating on London’s Downing Street.
The International History of the U.S. Suffrage Movement
A French Quarter Pontalba Row building.
A Postcard from New Orleans, Louisiana
Occupy Wall Street and the NAACP protesting in New York in 2011.
A History of Stolen Citizenship
A rendering of the Battle of Fort Pillow, also known as the Fort Pillow Massacre, which was fought on April 12, 1864 in Tennessee. It ended with a massacre by Confederate soldiers of at least one hundred surrendered black troops serving the Union, exemplifying one of the Civil War's transgressions of the norms of warfare.
The American Civil War, Then and Now
Richard and Mildred Loving
Interracial Marriage in "Post-Racial" America
Abraham Lincoln
Top Ten Origins: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Django Unchained movie poster
The Law of Slavery Lies at the Heart of the Movies “Lincoln” and “Django Unchained”
emancipation illustration from Harper's Weekly
President Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, 150 years ago
An image showing slaves working on a plantation on the island of Antigua in the early 1800s.
After Abolition: Britain and the Slave Trade Since 1807
Cover of A Swindler's Progress: Nobles and Convicts in the Age of Liberty by Kirsten McKenzie.
What's in a Name?
Anti-Christian sign in Federal Plaza Chicago 2008
Slavery, Gay Rights, and the Bible
1864 reproduction of the Emancipation Proclamation from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Obama’s Evolving Position on Same-Sex Marriage Is Similar to Lincoln’s Evolution on Antislavery
Contrabands—fugitive slaves—cooks, laundresses, laborers, teamsters, railroad repair crews—fled to the Union Army, but were not officially freed until 1863 by the Emancipation Proclamation.
In Commemorating the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, the Central Role of Slavery Must Not Be Forgotten
“Bombardment of Fort Sumter by the batteries of the Confederate states,” 1861.
The Civil War: Losing the War, Winning the History
Isaac W. Williams (front) in a file photo from the 1960s.
Still Fighting the Civil War in South Carolina
"The National Game. Three Outs and One Run." Drawing depicting the four candidates of the 1860 United States presidential election (L to R): John Bell, Stephen Douglas, John C. Breckinridge, and Abraham Lincoln. The artist is comparing the election to a baseball game.
The Election of 1860 and Secession — to Preserve Slavery
Rep Joe WIlson fan club with a poster that reads, "You lie!"
Brooks to Thurmond to Wilson
Emancipation Memorial in Lincoln Park, Washington DC.
Bicentennial for Two Great Emancipators