In this first episode of Kings and Generals’ animated series on the American Civil War, we explore the core causes of the ...

By D.G. Martin  “The Savage South” is an image that retired UNC-Chapel Hill Lineberger Professor of the Humanities at Fred Hobson thinks and writes about. He tried to explain to me why, over the years ...

The Savage South” is an image that retired UNC-Chapel Hill Lineberger Professor of the Humanities at Fred Hobson thinks and ...

The simple narrative today of the southern secession in 1860 and 1861 is that the southern states believed that the ...

Descendants of slave owners and those of enslaved people in former British colonies in the Caribbean ... including the southern United States. U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk told the forum ...

They spoke at a meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York this past week where, for the first time, descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in former British colonies in the Caribbean sat ...

descendants of slave owners and enslaved people in former British colonies in the Caribbean sat at the same table with diplomats and experts from those nations discussing the contentious issue of ...

Did the Southern colonies immediately decide to take up arms ... Lawler: And this is where the colony kept arms and ammunition in case of a slave rebellion, or if they needed to fight Indigenous ...

Slavery was so central to the European occupation ... and to reward enslaved people with freedom for their service. The Southern Colonies, where Blacks outnumbered whites in plantation locales ...

It also perpetuated the practice of slavery, sparked the Civil War and left a difficult legacy," he said. The Southern British colonies depended on agriculture for their wealth. The white elite ruling ...