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.

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.

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.