Chaos of Emancipation
Special guest post today at National Archives blog, “Rediscovering Black History” about the Chaos of Emancipation in northeast Louisiana, 1863. Much thanks to Tina Ligon and others for making this possible!
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Creating a biography of a slave
It occurred to me, when I wrote my recent post about Webster, a runaway slave, that with digitized texts, it has now become possible to develop a biographical sketch of an individual slave simply by performing a keyword search of more »
Runaway Slaves – the Story of Webster
It’s impossible to estimate the number of runaway slaves that set out for a new life of freedom in Northeastern Louisiana in 1863. At the start of the year, it was minimal, though still significant. With the coming of spring, more »
Book Review: American Uprising
I, for one, am impressed with Daniel Rasmussen’s American Uprising: The Untold Story of America’s Largest Slave Revolt, in which he tells the story of a slave uprising in 1811 in an area known as the “German Coast,” just north more »
Benjamin Sims tries to rescue his brother
October was a trying time for Benjamin Sims. He had learned that his brother, M. W. (Milton Walker) Sims, a staff officer of Confederate general Paul Octave Hebert, had been captured by Union forces near Natchez in July. M.W. Sims more »