What was the Civil War about? In a word, slavery. The driving force in American politics in the decades after the American Revolution was the rise of an arrogant, ruthless, parasitic oligarchy in the South, built on God-ordained economic inequality.
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This pioneering work examines in depth the little-known ways that African Americans engaged in electoral politics during Republic's early years.
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A leading historian of 19th century US history reviews two recent books on Lincoln and John Brown, charting the background to the Civil War and its lingering heritage today.
At a time when American casualties in Vietnam were disproportionately African American, most of those who successfully made it to Canada were white.
After Republicans lost their first election in 1856, the nineteenth-century Nate Silvers were happy to declare the antislavery movement a radical, fringe idea. Four years later, Abraham Lincoln won on a radical program of change.
Black traditions of struggle and defiance to oppression helped define the meanings of freedom and citizenship in the United States.
A new book about the abolitionist movement puts African Americans in the center of the history of our country's movement to end slavery.
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