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After Confederate Forces Captured Their Children, These Black Mothers Fought to Reunite Their Families
During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...
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Powell: Secession is a very American tradition — and not just in the South
While most people associate secession with Civil War history ... the first secession crisis wasn’t in the South, as you might think, but in the North. The United States wasn’t even 40 years ...
The Tariff Football And Income Tax History
We have an income tax as opposed to a tariff in part to deal with the mind of the South in 1913—yet the income tax revenue enabled revenue-destructive tariffs.