Revisit: JANUARY 1, 1863: WHEN NEW YEAR’S DAY MEANT FREEDOM

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

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Revisit: WILMINGTON RACE RIOT OF 1898

A politically motivated attack by whites against the city’s leading African American citizens, the Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 documents the lengths to which white Democrats went to regain political domination of the South after Reconstruction. Continue reading Revisit: WILMINGTON RACE RIOT OF 1898

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Revisit: JANUARY 1, 1863: WHEN NEW YEAR’S DAY MEANT FREEDOM

Revisit: WILMINGTON RACE RIOT OF 1898