US Civil War: how Europe aided the Confederacy
How Europe helped the Confederacy during the American Civil War while professing its abhorrence of slavery is an interesting tale of hypocrisy and mendacity in equal measure.
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Did the Founding Fathers oppose democracy?
The Founding Fathers never conceived of the United States as a democracy and let’s not get started on women, slaves and the poor as Tony McMahon discovers
Lobotomised and sold into slavery
A court case from 1700 reveals a horrific story of young men lobotomised and sold into slavery in Maryland
The Abolitionist who owned a thousand slaves
John Coakley Lettsom was a doctor and noted abolitionist – or opponent of slavery – who accidentally ended up owning about a thousand slaves
Toppling statues and renaming streets – nothing new
There is a long history of toppling statues and renaming streets and cities and historian Tony McMahon thinks we should vex a lot less about this
Corporate racism in the 1920s
A shocking example of vintage corporate racism with a 1923 Christmas card where African employees were treated as design accessories as Tony McMahon reports
Lewis Powell – the handsome assassin of Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln killer Lewis Powell is more famous today because of the celebrity he attained on account of his rugged good looks – but he was still hanged
Roman slavery and American slavery – how were they different?
What was the difference between Roman and American slavery in practice?