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Why the United States Needs More Museums about Slavery and Abolition, Not Another About the Civil War

When I first stepped into the foyer of the brand new American Civil War Museum at Historic Tredegar in Richmond, Virginia, I

“On this Juneteenth I’m on a tour being conducted by Jefferson Davis’s great grandson.” –@heirofElijah, June 19, 2019 The morning started

In the fall of 1865, Frederick Douglass riveted a small New England audience for more than two hours. Long forgotten,

“SLAVE-children are children,” Frederick Douglass wrote in his 1855 autobiography My Bondage and My Freedom. David Blight’s new study of

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