How Brazilian town became last holdout of the American Confederacy – and why it’s finally been defeated after 160 years
DESPITE the American Civil War ending nearly 160 years ago – there was still one place in the world where the Confederate South was seemingly alive and well. Welcome to the town of Santa ...
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How ‘Blackbirders’ Forced Tens of Thousands of Pacific Islanders Into Slavery After the Civil War
The decline of the American South's cotton and sugar industries paved the way for plantations in British-controlled Fiji and Australia, where victims of "blackbirding" endured horrific working conditi ...
When Confederate-glorifying monuments went up in the South, voting in Black areas went down
Confederate monuments burst into public consciousness in 2015 when a shooting at a historically Black church in Charleston, ...
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Census data analysis shows the South had a much higher mortality rate than the North in the US Civil War
For many years, historians have relied on a rough estimate of war dead from the U.S. Civil War ... men who moved from the North to the South or vice-versa after the war. The study found that ...