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Stampp focuses on major aspects of slavery, from its rise in the South to the treatment of slaves by their owners, as well as the reasons the institution lasted so long.

African-American sci-fi author Octavia Butler's Kindred relates one Black woman's journey toward discovering/accepting her familial racial diversity.

Even though slave apologists argued that slaves were ignorant and childlike, former slaves recalled understanding the ramifications of the Civil War.

There is little doubt that owners and overseers exercised strict control over slaves on the plantation. However, slave patrols were needed to provide regional oversight.

American racism and bigotry developed from its own distinct origins that have generally been debunked as baseless and unfounded propaganda.

Jefferson Davis believes that slavery is necessary to establish the southern cotton trade and that emancipation will eventually come.

Austrian wines, particularly reds from Burgenland are real bargains and worthy of a wine lover's attention.

Benjamin Franklin's relationship with slavery ran the gamut, from owing slaves in his younger years to being an outspoken abolitionist after the American Revolution.

Emancipation began as a gradual process that culminated in Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, starting a path toward full social and political equality.

By 1890, the Redeemers returned the South to political "home rule" which led to the complete disenfranchisement of the new black electorate.

In order to combat loneliness and depression, Louisa Adams became interested in social causes. In the process, she increased public awareness of the issues of her day.

The 1860 census dispels myths about Southern slavery but also allows the researcher to develop new conclusions regarding the role of slavery and the coming of war.

The United States should have flourished during the Reconstruction, but instead failed to provide equal status for its black citizens.

Traditionally, Texas' Civil War experiences excluded those of black slaves even though they were also first-hand witnesses.

Review of the history of slavery in the Cherokee Nation.

Historian Lewis E. Lehrman reveals the speech that defined Lincoln's convictions about slavery in his opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act sponsored by Stephen Douglas.

The Texas Slave Narratives illustrates that slaves were not only aware of the Civil War, but how it changed slavery and their first experiences of freedom.