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Military Service and Black Families During the Civil War

January 11, 2023January 6, 2023 Barbara A. Gannon #FamiliesCivilWar, #Roundtable, antebellum, Black Family, Civil War

This post is part of our online roundtable on Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s The Families’ Civil War. Somewhere in America today,

A Fuller Black History of the Civil War

January 10, 2023January 7, 2023 Robert Greene II #AAIHSRoundtable, #FamiliesCivilWar, Resistance, slavery

This post is part of our online roundtable on Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s The Families’ Civil War. Holly Pinheiro’s The Families’

Online Roundtable–Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s ‘The Families’ Civil War’

January 6, 2023January 5, 2023 AAIHS Editors #FamiliesCivilWar, #Roundtable, Black Family, Civil War

Black Perspectives, the award-winning blog of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is hosting a roundtable on Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.’s The Families’

The Civil War and Natchez U.S. Colored Troops

December 13, 2022December 28, 2022 Deborah Fountain race, slavery

By the end of the Civil War, nearly 200,000 Black men served as US soldiers and sailors. Of that number, more than 17,000

“The times requires this testimony”: William Still’s The Underground Railroad

December 5, 2022December 4, 2022 Julia W. Bernier Activism, slavery

William Still, the leader of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society (PAS) Vigilance Committee, kept meticulous records on the hundreds of women