U.S. President Abraham Lincoln‘s program of Southern reconstruction occupies much of his time and thought. Announced on December 8, the now six-week-old effort has proven more successful than many Northerners had hoped, while causing consternation among the political and military leaders of a fraying Confederacy. At the heart of reconstruction is the eradication of slavery…
In tandem with the plunging prospects of the Confederate States of America are Southern whites’ escalating condemnations of the evil, abolitionist United States. To be certain, Southern whites even prior to the war pinned the blame for secession on Northern abolitionists while proudly proclaiming the South’s determination to fight with all their might for the…
Today, the one-year anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, is a joyous occasion among free blacks, many of whom have obtained freedom within the past year. The year since the signing of the proclamation has witnessed a revolution in race relations. Prior to the proclamation, many Northern whites were uncertain that freed blacks would prove worthy…