When the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect January 1, 1863 African American soldiers in the Union Army had been fighting the Confederacy along the South Carolina coast for nearly a year. Continue reading Revisit: JANUARY 1, 1863: WHEN NEW YEAR’S DAY MEANT FREEDOM
The Port Royal Experiment, the first major attempt by Northerners to reconstruct the Southern political and economic system, began only seven months after the firing on Fort Sumter. On November 7, 1861 the Union Army occupied South Carolina’s Sea Islands, freeing approximately 10,000 slaves. As the Confederate Army and white plantation owners fled, Northerners began to capitalize on their possession of an area world famous for its cotton. During … Continue reading Revisit: PORT ROYAL EXPERIMENT (1862-1865)
The Dred Scott v. Sandford case (1857) was the most important slavery-related decision in the United States Supreme Court’s history. Coming on the eve of the Civil War, and seven years after the Missouri Compromise of 1850, the decision affected the national political scene, impacted the rights of free blacks, and reinforced the institution of slavery. Continue reading Revisit: THE DRED SCOTT DECISION, 1857
The first Kansas State Colored Convention was a call from black Kansans to be granted a future of “Liberty, Justice and Equality” under the United States government. The first Kansas Colored Convention was held in Leavenworth, Kansas on October 13-16, 1863 in the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church. The twenty-three delegates who attended the convention represented nearly seven thousand black Kansans. They discussed issues that … Continue reading Revisit: KANSAS STATE COLORED CONVENTION (1863)
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