Monthly Archives: February 2015

MAROONS: The runaway slaves who stayed put.

Posted on February 27, 2015 by

I’ve been reading about the maroons, the escaped slaves who didn’t try to go all the way north to a free state. Instead, they either fled into the countryside and formed their own little colony, or they hovered around the … Continue reading →

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LYNCHINGS: Another humbling history lesson

Posted on February 20, 2015 by

I recently read an article about ISIS and the beheadings and their burning of the Jordanian pilot. Then I read something about the Rape of Nanking by the Japanese in World War II. I thought how savage and brutal – … Continue reading →

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Reconstruction, so much better and so much worse than I knew.

Posted on February 16, 2015 by

To honor Black History Month:  I have now read two books about reconstruction (A Short History of Reconstruction by Eric Foner, and The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case: Race, Law, and Justice in the Reconstruction Era, by Michael A. Ross), … Continue reading →

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A White Woman Writing Black History

Posted on February 9, 2015 by

A reader has asked me by what lights should I, a white woman, be writing about Afro-Americans, slavery in particular.  Once I get all of the flip answers out of my system, what it comes down to is that people … Continue reading →

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