Slavery

Jake Wynn

Feb 27, 2020

A Pennsylvania newspaper's scornful reaction to a Southern prediction of civil war - 1860

The Pennsylvania Daily Telegraph published an article from a Southern magazine threatening secession in the summer of 1860.

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Codie Eash

Feb 11, 2020

“Let us have war” - The Gettysburg veterans who argued against the “Cornerstone Speech”

Veterans at Gettysburg used Alexander Stephens's infamous speech about slavery to argue that the Confederate cause was unjust and wrong.

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Codie Eash

Aug 25, 2019

“Into a Perfect Steel-Trap” – Frederick Douglass and John Brown at Chambersburg

In the months before his ill-fated raid on the Arsenal at Harpers Ferry, John Brown met with Frederick Douglass in Pennsylvania.

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