Today, I will interview Matthew Clavin, a history professor at the University of Houston, on his new book, “Aiming for Pensacola: Fugitive Slaves on the Atlantic and Southern Frontiers.” The book recovers…
Tag: Slavery
Free Blacks Flee Pensacola
The Panama City News Herald published today an article by Marlene Womack on how free blacks fled Pensacola in the years before the Civil War as the state’s laws became more oppressive,…
Slavery – No Longer Global Family Secret
The State Department agrees that slavery is a problem. Should we send this to “Newsy Neighbors”? U.S. Releases Report on Modern-Day Slavery; Rice Says Problem No Longer a “Global Family Secret” WASHINGTON…