New research suggests that Redoshi, who became a free woman in 1865, may have been the last living survivor of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Skip to content Skip to site index U.S.

Seen in their entirety for the first time, Emma Mordecai's US Civil War writings paint a seemingly contradictory picture of an anti-emancipation woman who was herself a minority The post Slave ...

Civil War Secrets: This Woman ... donning a wig and posing as a male slave. ... Historian Philip Van Doren Stern included a chapter from Unsexed in his 1959 book Secret Missions of the Civil War.

Civil War Secret: A Woman Posed as ... donning a wig and posing as a male slave. ... Historian Philip Van Doren Stern included a chapter from Unsexed in his 1959 book Secret Missions of the Civil War.

Local News Statue honors once-enslaved woman who won freedom in court nearly 80 years before Civil War Elizabeth Freeman shed the chains of slavery 241 years ago, on Aug. 21, 1781.

This newest Fugitive Slave Law incensed most New Englanders, but one Brunswick woman determined to “do something.” Harriet and her husband Calvin Stowe. Professor Stowe taught at Bowdoin College.

Civil War surgeons were butchers who hacked off limbs without anesthesia. Private Eben Smith, Co. A, 11th Maine Volunteersm was wounded at Deep Bottom, Va., by a conoidal ball on Aug. 16, 1864.

As a public historian and head of the American Civil War Museum, Christy Coleman is creating a diverse narrative about the Civil War. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our ...

Myth #6: A Civil War bullet impregnated a young Virginia woman. One of the stranger stories to come out of the Civil War is that of a young Virginia woman standing on a porch as a battle waged nearby.

Bolin was also a Civil War veteran who fought for the Union in the border state of Missouri. Jackson was almost certainly the last remaining widow of a Civil War soldier when she died Dec. 16 at a ...

Lebanon Civil War Doc ‘Green Line’ Uses Figurines to Confront a Woman’s Violent Childhood Trauma. Writer-director Sylvie Ballyot told a Locarno Film Festival event that her protagonist "had ...