The Devil's Punchbowl in Natchez, Mississippi, was a Civil War-era death camp. After the Civil War millions of freed Black ...

In the South, most slaves did not hear of the proclamation for months. But the purpose of the Civil War had now changed ... A few individual commanders in the field had taken steps to recruit ...

During more than ten years of field excavations ... From the 1760s until the Civil War, runaway slave ads in the Virginia and North Carolina newspapers often mentioned the Dismal Swamp as the ...

But this free elite would come to play a major role in the turbulent politics of the Civil War and Reconstruction ... the slave system (for example, the ability to rise from field hand to driver).

THE United States was in the middle of a civil war 150 years ago and ... the great-great-great granddaughter of an illiterate field slave from Georgia named Melvinia who gave birth at age 15 ...

Freeman’s book Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War (Farrar ... The system of slavery was grounded in violence. It was not a kind era. A lot of people have heard ...

Life in the Southern plantations was often terrible. The treatment of enslaved people could be very harsh.