Tag: Black History

Slave-based Economy: Slavery Was the Source of White Real Estate and Power
To discuss race and real estate, we must go back to the beginning of white land use in America, when the South was a slave-based economy ... Read More

Racial disparity: Institutional Racism from Black Codes to the Present
Institutional racism didn't end in 1865. The present racial disparity is the result of segregation policies starting with black codes, then Jim Crow; some that lasted well into the 1970s, others that have been created since and are in place today ... Read More

Revisionist History and Slavery as Entertainment at The Black America Show
Nate Salsbury's Slavery Spectacular! Showed off the “Fun-Loving Darky of Old Slavery Days.” Really. So began revisionist history and nostalgia for the antebellum South. ... Read More

What Would Black History Look Like if the Reconstruction Had Continued?
If the Federal Army had stayed in the South longer, if the Reconstruction had lasted longer, if America didn't experience the century-long setback that came after the Federal Army left, what would black history look like now? ... Read More

The Meridian Race Riot of 1871: The Failure of the Rickety Reconstruction
The Meridian race riot of 1871 illustrates the battles between freedmen and the KKK and other white supremacists in the South during the Reconstruction era ... Read More

The Reconstruction: Federal Army, Carpetbaggers, and Blacks in Office
Then, in 1875, federal army and the carpetbaggers leave, the KKK wins, Black Codes are put in place and the Jim Crow era begins. The Reconstruction is barely even mentioned in history textbooks ... Read More

Slaveholders, Militant Immediatists and Others on the Abolition Spectrum
White Slaveholders, Black slaveholders, gradualists, immediatists, persuasive abolitionists,moral abolitionists and those who wanted all blacks shipped to Liberia -- they covered a broad spectrum of opinions that ranged from pro slavery to unconditional freedom ... Read More

Free People of Color: Before Abolition It Was a Freedom with Qualifications
Before the abolition of slavery, freedom didn't mean the same thing for free people of color as it meant for whites. There were lots of formal and informal restrictions ... Read More

What Is Good History Education: Civil War Battles or Why They Were Fought?
In good history education, the focus is not the war itself. (In this case the American Civil War.) It's why it was fought, the effects of a war on the following years, decades, centuries, and most importantly, what we learned from it ... Read More

Slavery and the American Civil War: A Quick When and Why
There's really no such thing as a quick overview of American slavery and the Civil War, so this is turning into a series ... Read More

Laura Plantation: A Sugar Plantation Tour With Barely a Mention of Slavery
Laura Plantation is the remains of one of the old sugar plantations of the Deep South, which depended completely on slavery for their success. They were brutal places where the death toll among slaves was always higher than the birth rate. You wouldn't know it from the tour ... Read More