Passed in the United States Senate on April 8, 1864, and the U.S. House on January 31, 1865, a proposed national amendment formally abolishing slavery in the United States is ratified by Georgia this day. Georgia’s approval represents the threshold of three-fourths of the states needed to make the act an amendment to the U.S.…
The Tyler Reporter (Texas) this week publishes a snippet of items that collectively offer insight into the South’s state of affairs in the post-war months: namely, the upsurge in white marriages, repairing of white Baptist churches damaged by the war, and the difficulties facing freedmen in a world where white Southerners have little to no…
Today in the District of Columbia the 39th Congress convenes. The big question looming over all others is that of what to do about the Southern states who, although defeated in the recent war, seem determined to defy the Union by continuing their oppression and violence against against former slaves. Republicans, the party of Lincoln…