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Eric Beckman

Cornerstone Speech by Alexander H. Stephens - 0 views

  • Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
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    Just another reminder that, to Confederate leaders, the Civil War was about racism and slavery.  Speech from the VP of the CSA.
Eric Beckman

Liberty and the American Revolution - 0 views

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    The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History has lessons for documents from their collections relating to: The Stamp Act Crisis, Slavery and Abolition, and Breaking from Great Britain.
Eric Beckman

America's slave wealth. - 0 views

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    A graph showing the economic importance of slavery
Eric Beckman

African American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship - 0 views

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    Library of Congress primary sources, primarily images, arranged in 10 chapters: slavery-civil rights.
Eric Beckman

Map showing the distribution of slaves in the southern states - 0 views

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    Boston Public Library collection
Eric Beckman

Poster: Dealers Inspecting A Negro At A Slave Auction - 0 views

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    Enslaver inspects an enslaved person
Eric Beckman

Obama's Mother Had African Forebear, Study Suggests - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Good talking point for the blended nature of American culture, race (especially whiteness) as a social construction, and the complicated mess that is our history
Eric Beckman

Resolution to call the election of Abraham Lincoln a Hostile Act, November 1860 - 0 views

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    Contains a small visual and the actual text of South Carolina resolution declaring the intention to secede from the US in order to protect the status of slave holders following the election of Abraham Lincoln
Eric Beckman

Slave trader ledger: William James Smith accounting book - 0 views

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    Slave trader's ledger from the mid-19th century
Eric Beckman

African American Heritage - Charleston SC - 0 views

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    "Black Ellis Island"
Eric Beckman

Where Slaves Ruled - Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine - 0 views

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    Profiles current day communities originally founded be escaped slaves in Brazil
Eric Beckman

A Tale of Two Plantations - 0 views

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    Research into the lives of enslaved people in plantations in Jamaica and Virginia
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