slavery


Historians expect deference on TJ's cruelty Published on Oct 31st, 2012 9 comments To back up her accusation that I have misled my readers, Cinder Stanton refers darkly, and very vaguely, to truncated quotations, twisted chronology, unnamed misinterpretations. What are they? I have...
Mr. Jefferson's greed: New book challenges image of reluctant slaveholder Published on Oct 17th, 2012 75 comments Publishers Weekly calls it the number one history title of the fall and one of the best of all genres. Both Smithsonian and American History magazines have made it a recent cover story. However, thus...
Slavery's effects live on Published on Feb 14th, 2002 0 comments As of the 1860 census, the last before the American Civil War, 2.3 million slaves lived in the Lower Southern states—nearly 50 percent of the entire Lower Southern population at that time. The...