Slavery
Today in labor history: John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry
October 16, 2012Brown, a minister and fierce opponent of slavery, sought to obtain weapons from the arsenal to defeat the slaveocracy in the South. John Brown and his men were captured and executed.
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Today in labor history: Nat Turner begins anti-slavery revolt
August 21, 2012On Aug. 21, 1831 Nat Turner begins a bloody slave revolt in Southampton County, Va., killing about 60 whites and freeing slaves along the way. It is considered the largest revolt of enslaved people in U.S....
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Today in labor and peoples history: Seminole Wars begin
July 27, 2012On this date in 1815 the first Seminole War began with the attack on a fort held by runaway slaves in Florida.* Some sources credit Colonel Edmund Gaines as leading the attack; others credit Andrew Jackson...
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Blood and citizenship: Black soldiers and the 4th of July
July 3, 2012As we celebrate Independence Day, it is worth remembering how important documents are to us - and where the authority for those documents comes from.
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Europe and Africa: a genocidal history
March 21, 2012During the "scramble for Africa" at the end of the 19th century, Germany had entered the game partly for economic and partly for geopolitical reasons.
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