John Brown’s father, Owen Brown, was a Calvinist who believed that slavery was a “breach of divine law” and that if we didn’t put a stop to it, God would have no choice but to “bring his wrath down on …
But with Blood
Knock. Knock.Who goes there?John.We’ve been expecting you. Since July, John Brown had been renting a small cabin just four miles north of Harpers Ferry under the name of Isaac Smith. The US government had already caught wind of his plan …
A Slave to Greed
Could slavery have ended in the United States without war?Think on that. When John Brown was hung for treason in 1860 for trying to take over the United States Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry, the typical slave owner in …
Why Abraham Lincoln REALLY Freed The Slaves
The Civil War began because wealthy Southern Planters were beside themselves that an Anti-Slavery candidate had won the Presidential Election. Outside of former President John Quincy Adams, there had always been a sitting President who had been either a Slave owner …
Sherman’s Bootstraps
The emancipation of the enslaved African in the final throws of the Civil War was nothing like you see in the movies. In movies, we are often presented with a clear hero and a clear villain. The hero’s goal is …
Special Field Orders, No. 15
Robert E. Lee and William Tecumseh Sherman are hands down two of the most important figures in the American Civil War and American military history.The irony is that Robert E. Lee, who owned slaves and was the commander of the …
Free In Name Only
The Civil War is over. And the question remains, what to do with 200,000 largely illiterate, profoundly ignorant to the ways of the world, landless, moneyless, and homeless population? Hello? Anybody? Don’t all raise your hands all at once? After …
Exodus 20:5
“I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me.” Exodus 20:5 On December 1, 1955, the seminal event of …
The Great Migration “We Gettin’ Da @#$% Outta Here”
In 1889, Jim Crow began in the South, kicking off a campaign of unconstrained textbook terrorism that would last until 1965. 85% of all lynching’s that occurred in the United States occurred south of the Mason Dixon line. In 1892 …
W.E.B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington
An elderly black man took off his hat, bowed, and, with tears running down his cheeks, said, “May de good Lord bless you, President Linkum!” Lincoln replied by removing his own hat and silently returning the bow. That gesture, a …
And That’s A Fact Jack
Jim Jefferies is regarded as one of the greatest prizefighters of all time and rightfully so. Born in 1875, just 10 years after the American Civil War, he was known as the Boilermaker.Jefferies stood about 6’1 and weighed about 225 …
May 30, 1921
For most of you, what you are about to read will be entirely new to you. And for many of you, you will think it to be so unbelievable that you will question if it is true.But it is true.Had …