In honor of Archives Month, I thought I would post once a week about various repositories which I visited, and comment upon some of the resources I found. Today, I’ll write about Louisiana State University, Special Collections, specifically their Louisiana more »
Confederate Congressmen responded swiftly to Lincoln’s Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, condemning it as a heinous and offensive act, deliberately constructed to promote a bloody and horrific slave uprising. Senator Thomas Jenkins Semmes of Louisiana saw horrors ahead. Lincoln’s proclamation “is a more »
On this day, 150 years ago, President Abraham Lincoln announced the Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. It declared slaves in areas “still in rebellion” (most of the Confederacy) would become free. It also provided compensation to slave holders who were loyal and more »