Posts Tagged ‘US Colored Troops’
Matt DiBiase Interview
Matt DiBiase of RadioPublic’s Packaged Tourist Show interviewed me regarding Unsung Patriots this past April 26. Matt DiBiase’s show features authors, artists, and commentators of all stripes dealing with the arts, sports history, American history, world history, and socio-political issues. This show tapes every Tuesday evening, usually at 10:00 PM EST. “Tonight’s guest is a dear…
Read MoreKirkus Review of Collective Amnesia: American Apartheid
COLLECTIVE AMNESIA: AMERICAN APARTHEID African Americans’ 400 Years in North America, 1619-2019 Eugene DeFriest Betit Xlibris (502 pp.); February 14, 2019 BOOK REVIEW An accomplished American historian explores the roots and effects of the mistreatment of African Americans in the United States. Much of the history in Bétit’s (War’s Cost, 2016, etc.) carefully researched and…
Read MoreCollective Amnesia: American Apartheid African Americans’ 400 Years in North America, 1619-2019 Contents
Dedicated to African Americans, Freedmen and slave Who stood by the Union in her time of trial And to their descendants Who kept the faith Despite segregation and hate Chapter One Racism and White Supremacy: America’s “Original Sin?” (25 pages) Chapter Two Slavery: America’s “Peculiar Institution” …
Read MoreUnited States Colored Troops
Few students of American history are aware of the critical role African Americans played in their own liberation – even “experts” who follow the Civil War rarely appreciate how critical their participation was. At first, the Union carefully avoided any threat to slavery because of the need to cultivate the Border States and pacify Unionists…
Read MoreLincoln’s Views on Slavery
For a man with nearly no formal education, Abraham Lincoln was one of our most intelligent and capable presidents. He wisely conceded, “American slavery…belongs to our politics, to our industries, to our commerce and to our religion. Every portion of our territory in some form or other has contributed to the growth and to the…
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