Since my move to South Carolina, I have had occasion to participate in Watch-Night Services where I have come to appreciate this tradition which some say began just before the signing of the
About Our Freedom Badge You can get be among the first to qualify for the 2011 About Our Freedom Badge. The badge features just one section of the African American Monument located in
April 2011 will mark 150 years since the surrender of Fort Sumter and the start of the Civil War. We will undoubtedly hear much about Civil War battles, secession, party conflicts, and the
How did slaves spend the holidays? Are there any traditions which began back then still around today? When I moved South and attended some of the services held in the same places where
On December 22, 1864, General Sherman presented a gift to President Lincoln. Click here to read the actual telegraph: Sherman's Christmas Gift to Lincoln Thanks, @LCAfricana!
The following is a legal document which clearly explains the reasons South Carolina left the Union. It was written by Christopher Memminger who also served on the committee that created the Confederate Constitution.
As I reflected this morning upon all the recent exposure I have had to the work of Civil War historians, I understood how important it is that I search for and share the
100,000 children under the age of 15 enlisted to fight in the Civil War. George S Lamkin of Mississipi joined the Confederate army at the age of 11 and was wounded by 12
I tried to imagine what it must have been like for slaves to not know who their father's were or when they were born. This is an unfortunate road block for those who
Many believed that this nation was brought into existence by God. People of the North and South believed God favored their view of slavery. Abraham Lincoln did not speak out publicly about religion
Did you know that that it was the newly formed Republican Party which elected its first president, Abraham Lincoln, after only existing for only two election years?
My Bondage and My Freedom is an autobiographical slave narrative written by Frederick Douglass and published in 1855. It is the second of three autobiographies written by Douglass, and is mainly an expansion of his first (Narrative of
Frederick Douglass papers and biographieswww.learnodes.com/2007/12/04/frederick-douglas/ by, judy_breck As we begin this journey on "About Our Freedom," we will introduce a great African American abolitionist, author, orator, intellect, publisher, and much more!
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