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After serving in the United States Navy in 1954–1956, Still went on to the University of Alabama, where he earned his Master of Arts degree in 1958 with a thesis on "The history of the CSS Arkansas" and his Ph.D. in 1964 with a dissertation on "The construction and fitting out of ironclad vessels-of-war within the Confederacy", completed ...
Durnford was known as a stern master who worked his slaves hard and punished them often in his efforts to make his Louisiana sugar plantation a success. [8] In the years leading up to the Civil War, Antoine Dubuclet, who owned over a hundred slaves, was considered the wealthiest black slaveholder in Louisiana.
Known as an excellent public speaker, Robertson made his career teaching thousands of college students in his Civil War and Reconstruction course at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, in Blacksburg, Virginia, as the Alumni Distinguished Professor in History from 1967 to 2011. [5] [6]
The historian E. Franklin Frazier, in his book The Negro Family, stated that "there were masters who, without any regard for the preferences of their slaves, mated their human chattel as they did their stock." [12] Ex-slave Maggie Stenhouse remarked, "Durin' slavery there were stockmen. They was weighed and tested.
William Booth Taliaferro was born in Gloucester County, Virginia, to an Anglo-Italian family, the Taliaferros.He was the son of Frances Amanda Todd (Booth) and Warner Throckmorton Taliaferro, [1] and the nephew of James A. Seddon, who would become Secretary of War for the Confederate States of America under Jefferson Davis.
A historian writing in 1967 commented, "Since the publication of Bell Wiley's Southern Negroes, 1861–1865 in 1938, historians have known that the moonlight and magnolia idea of loyal slaves, who cheerfully supported the masters who fought to keep them enslaved, is a myth. Every teacher of survey courses knows, however, that this myth dies hard."
For instance, according to many memoirs by former enslavers published after Reconstruction, come Christmas morning each year before the Civil War, masters and household slaves always jointly ...
Henry Wilson, The History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America (in 3 volumes, 1872 & 1877). Myers, John L. "The Writing of History of the Rise and Fall of the Slave Power in America", Civil War History, June 1985, Vol. 31 Issue 2, pp. 144–62. Parker, Theodore. The Slave Power writings and speeches of Theodore Parker, 1841–52 ...