This is the grave of James Longstreet. Born in 1821 in Edgefield, South Carolina, a center of the southern planter elite, Longstreet grew up in those traditions. His father, like.
This is the grave of Joshua Hill. Born in 1812 in Abbeville, South Carolina, Hill went to the common schools, then studied for the law, and then passed the bar..
This is the grave of Amos Akerman. Born in 1821 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Akerman grew up in one of those gigantic 19th century families (he was the 9th out.
Movie poster advertises 'The Birth of a Nation,' directed by D.W. Griffith and illustrating a Ku Klux Klan member on horseback, 1915. Based on the novel 'The Clansman' by Thomas.
The Freedmen's Bureau / Drawn by A.R. Waud. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1868 July 25, p. 473. Hard to find something more self-serving than this given the Freedmen's Bureau massive.
On March 3, 1865, Congress established the Freedmen's Bureau to adjudicate relations between white planters and the now-freed slaves in the South, especially around labor issues. A potentially excellent idea,.
For seemingly forever, the end of Reconstruction has been taught as the "Compromise of 1877, where Democrats agreed to give the presidency to Rutherford Hayes in return for the end.
The entire point of slavery was a controllable labor force. So what happened when that labor force became free in 1865? Southern planters wanted to bring in the Chinese to.
