... 3, 2012, p. D1, and April 2, 2012 on NYTimes.com. Retrieved 2012-04-03 online. Bibliography of American Civil War naval history External links at the National Archives from the at the Library of Congress This collection contains digital images of political cartoons, personal papers, pamphlets, maps, paintings and photographs from the Civil War Era held in Special Collections at Gettysburg College. Washington ... , letters, maps, personal papers, and manuscripts-held at ASERL member libraries – site with 7,000 pages, including the complete run of Harper's Weekly newspapers from the Civi...

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... stay demanded more freedom from their masters. In this way, the slaves gained some power in the situation, forcing masters to make offerings in exchange for labor. (New York Public Library 1) . The Confederate government threatened to kill or enslave any captured officers or enlisted men of black regiments. Lincoln replied by promising to treat Confederate prisoners of war the same way ... scenes for the Northern armies, and risking their lives on the battlefront, the slaves centralized the issue of freedom and played a key role in the North's victory. (New York Public Library 1). In ac...

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... to the murder of a African state senator by the name of B.F. Randoph, Tolbert "told the Congressional Committee that he had been sworn in as a member of the Klan in Abbeville county in 1868. He provided an account of some of the Klan's motives as he claimed their purpose was "the destruction of the Republican part and the killing or banishment of ... ...

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... institution was to be destroyed, it would have to be done by the slaves themselves. The bloodiest insurrection of all, in which some sixty whites were murdered, occurred in Southampton County, Virginia, in August, 1831. Nat Turner, its leader, besides being a skilled carpenter, was a literate, mystical preacher. He had discovered particular relevance in the prophets of the Old Testament. Besides identifying ... ...

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