A newly-published apologist tract for slavery is circulating and making glad the hearts of white slaveholders in the South. Entitled, “Slavery Sanctioned by the Bible,” the booklet-length volume, written by a Baptist layman, surveys the presence of slavery in the Bible, then concludes: If our Southern slaveholders were all animated by this heavenly spirit of…
In the West today, Union soldiers fight against African slavery even as American politicians force yet another treaty upon Native Americans designed to marginalize Indians. In Missouri, the minor Battle of Dry Wood Creek (also known as the Battle of the Mules) results in Confederate victory. U.S. Col. J.H. Lane, leading some 600 calvary, is…
Today one of the worst fears of Southern slaveholders is realized: the first school for emancipated slaves is established in Alexandria, Virginia by Mary Chase, an African American woman. The laws of southern states, with the lone exception of Tennessee, have long decreed that it is a crime to teach African slaves to read and…