Statue location honoring Robert Smalls at SC State House picked. Here’s where it will go
Robert Smalls, an enslaved man, commandeered a Confederate ship during the Civil War to bring slaves to freedom. Later, he ...
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Noel Ignatiev on the Civil War and emancipation
In other words, there was never a purer working class parliament in the history of the planet than this constitutional convention of the state of South Carolina in 1868. And the government that ...