Adam Seagrave highlights the role of higher-law arguments in U.S. abolitionism.
Tag: Civil War
The Mystery of the Civil War’s Camp Casey
From the Archive: President Trump says removing “beautiful” Confederate statues erases U.S. history, but the South ignored other Civil War heroes, the freedom fighters in the “colored regiments,” as Chelsea Gilmour noted in 2015.
Trump’s Fragile Grasp of History
Mystery of the Civil War’s Camp Casey
From the Archive: U.S. history is distorted by the prism of race, even the Civil War, which was fought over slavery but then enshrined white heroes when Jim Crow racism quickly asserted itself, a reality relevant to Black History Month…
John Brown’s Anti-Slavery Legacy
When New Year’s Meant Freedom
Some white Americans still try to dismiss the evils of slavery, pretending that many slaves were happy serving their white masters. But the morning of Jan. 1, 1863, showed a different reality when President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation and…
How to Eradicate Racism
Confronting Southern ‘Victimhood’
Shaking Off the Symbols of Racism
The Mystery of the Civil War’s Camp Casey
Special Report: During the Civil War’s final years, a Union base in Northern Virginia trained hundreds of African-American soldiers to fight to end slavery, one of only a few such bases inside a Confederate state. But Camp Casey has nearly disappeared…