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Abolitionist, civil rights activist, and Union colonel George H. Hanks sent photographs with descriptions of emancipated child slaves and Chinn in a letter to George William Curtis, then editor of Harper's Weekly, [2] the most widely read journal during the Civil War, which appeared in the January 1864 article "Emancipated Slaves White and Colored": [3]
White slave propaganda was a kind of publicity, especially photograph and woodcuts, and also novels, articles, and popular lectures, about slaves who were biracial or white in appearance. [1] Their examples were used during and prior to the American Civil War to further the abolitionist cause and to raise money for the education of former slaves.
"Children of the plantation" is a euphemism used [by whom?] to refer to people with ancestry tracing back to the time of slavery in the United States in which the offspring was born to black African female slaves (either still in the state of slavery or freed) in the context of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and Non-Black men, usually the slave ...
[6] Formerly enslaved people who reached the protection of the Union Army during the course of the war were called contrabands, [7] and in some cases thousands-strong columns of freed slaves followed U.S. Army troop movements through the South. [8] Eventually contraband refugee camps were set up alongside many Union military fortifications. [9]
Slave breeding was the practice in slave states of the United States of slave owners systematically forcing slaves to have children to increase their wealth. [1] It included coerced sexual relations between enslaved men and women or girls, forced pregnancies of enslaved women and girls due to forced inter inbreeding with fellow slaves in hopes ...
Durham County is putting $237,000 toward a downtown memorial honoring the enslaved people of Stagville Plantation. “Stagville was not just a slave plantation. It was considered a slave complex ...
John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was an American abolitionist in the decades preceding the Civil War.First reaching national prominence in the 1850s for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas, Brown was captured, tried, and executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia for a raid and incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in 1859.
He had owned slaves but joined the bi-racial Readjuster Party after the Civil War. [198] John Lawrence Manning (1816–1889), 65th Governor of South Carolina, in 1860 he kept more than 600 people as slaves. [199] Francis Marion (1732–1795), Revolutionary War general, most of the people he enslaved escaped and fought with the British. [200]