Ford-era footage of Richmond Hill, GA
Compiled for the Richmond Hill, GA Historical Society by Cosmos Mariner Productions in 2014.
Whitney Plantation museum confronts painful history of slavery
The first museum in America dedicated entirely to slavery opened a few months ago in Wallace, Louisiana. Michelle Miller visits the museum and found a surprising history, not only about the plantation, but her own family.
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High angle shot of downtown street scene of Montgomery Alabama 1937. Several views of Alabama's State Capitol building in Montgomery. Shows the Confederate Memorial Monument on north side of Capitol Hill. Image of southern gentleman of the confederacy (south) and southern belle (lady). Shows the six pointed brass star on the portico of Alabama's State Capitol building where Jefferson Davis took his oath of office as first President of the Confederacy in 1861. Shows the Confederate White House where Mr and Mrs Davis lived until the Confederacy Capitol was shifted to Richmond Virginia. Southern gentleman of the south pose with a group of southern ladies. Shows southern lady fashions of the 1800's, southern belle fashions. Looking down Dexter Ave is a public square found in many older American communities. Shows the fountain at Court Square in Montgomery, Alabama, with the Exchange Hotel in BG. Shows New Exchange Hotel in 1937. Scenes of the Union Stock Yards in Montgomery. Shows cattle entering and swimming through a cattle dip vat. Large, adult female pig called a sow pig with nursing baby pigs or piglets.
Shows CCC workers (Civilian Conservation Corps) building a shelter (structure) in Chickasaw State Park in Marengo County. CCC workers in Valley Creek State Park in Perry County, Alabama. Auburn Alabama in the 1930's, street scene of Auburn and scenes of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University). College students driving in motor cars of that era. College students in a 1920's open touring automobile (car) with Alpha Tau Omega fraternity symbol and other writing on side of car. Footage of man and women riding a bicycle built for two dressed in 1890's fashion, CU of couple on bicycle built for 2. Shows dog performing tricks, ringing bell to be fed, answering a telephone, and riding a velocipede (tricycle). Shows artist painting a scene in Chewacla State Park in Auburn Alabama. People riding horses on bridle trail. People riding bicycles on bicycle trail in state park. Scenes of Wright's Mill area in Chewacla State Park. Scenes of CCC workers building a dam in a state park. Shows Reserve Officers Training Corp unit at Alabama Polytechnic Institute in 1937. Female students at Alabama Polytechnic Institute feeding chickens and posing for pictures.
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A 'Confederate Museum' is a Smart Idea
A 'Confederate Museum' is a Smart Idea.
Over the decades millions of very poor individuals dedicated their pennies that added up to millions of dollars of very hard earned money, to go to the building of Confederate monuments, statues and cemeteries. In turn they entrusted the care of these Confederate monuments, statues and cemeteries to government agencies or educational entities, only to find that many years later that new representatives in these government organizations want to remove or destroy the Confederate monuments and statues.
First, these Confederate monuments and statues weren't built with tax-dollars or government funds, so these governmental agencies have zero right of ownership. They were only entrusted to care for them and at the outset they gleefully undertook that task.
Second, the vast majority of Americans want the Confederate monuments. The few that want the monuments removed have opinions mainly due to the vast brainwashing put forth by the Marxist/Communist media and usually are people of very low IQ.
The Confederate Congress described the true character of General Kirby-Smith appraising Kirby Smith’s “...justice, his firmness and moderation, his integrity and conscientious regard for law, his unaffected kindness to the people, the protection of their rights and the redress of their wrongs, and has thus won the confidence of Congress.”
Louisiana Radical: James Longstreet and Reconstruction (Lecture)
Park Ranger Karlton Smith discusses Longstreet's post-war politics, his role in shaping reconstruction in Louisiana, his involvement with some of the era's major players, and his participation in the Battle of Liberty Place.
C-SPAN Cities Tour - Alexandria: Hidden History of Alexandria
This video is about Hidden History of Alexandria.Michael Lee Pope takes us to several locations Around Alexandria including a slave pen, Jones point and an infamous duel . Throughout the piece he discusses the importance of Alexandria's history.
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A. P. Hill | Wikipedia audio article
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A. P. Hill
00:01:16 1 Early life and education
00:03:34 2 Career
00:04:23 2.1 American Civil War
00:04:33 2.1.1 Early months
00:05:18 2.1.2 Light Division
00:10:18 2.1.3 Third Corps commander
00:14:00 2.2 Death
00:15:26 3 Analysis
00:17:27 4 Legacy
00:18:16 5 In popular culture
00:18:43 6 See also
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Ambrose Powell Hill, Jr. (November 9, 1825 – April 2, 1865) was a Confederate general who was killed in the American Civil War. He is usually referred to as A.P. Hill, to differentiate him from another, unrelated Confederate general, Daniel Harvey Hill.
A native Virginian, Hill was a career United States Army officer who had fought in the Mexican–American War and Seminole Wars prior to joining the Confederacy. After the start of the American Civil War, he gained early fame as the commander of the Light Division in the Seven Days Battles and became one of Stonewall Jackson's ablest subordinates, distinguishing himself in the 1862 battles of Cedar Mountain, Second Bull Run, Antietam, and Fredericksburg.
Following Jackson's death in May 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville, Hill was promoted to lieutenant general and commanded the Third Corps of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, which he led in the Gettysburg Campaign and the fall campaigns of 1863. His command of the corps in 1864–65 was interrupted on multiple occasions by illness, from which he did not return until just before the end of the war, when he was killed during the Union Army's offensive at the Third Battle of Petersburg.
The So-Called African American Civil War Museum (Pt. 3)
GMSTruthSent takes a visit to the African American Civil War Museum to edify the elect of Israel. Double Shalam.
The Battle of Sailor's Creek April 6, 1865 (Lecture)
The Battle of Sailor's Creek was fought near Farmville, Virginia, in the closing days of the American Civil War, on April 6, 1865. Join National Park Service Ranger and Historian John Heiser as he recounts the last major engagement of Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant.
A Son of the Confederacy: The Life and Legacy of Daniel Harvey Hill Jr.
A video biography by Taylor Wolford
Music: The Bonnie Blue Flag by the 2nd South Carolina String Band
Image Credits: Virginia Military Institute Archives, Photograph Stacks, #0003028 Jackson photograph collection, Folder 05.
The Agromeck, volume four, page 16, Portrait of Dr. Daniel Harvey Hill, 1906.
History Lives On, Battle of Gettysburg: Civil War Documentary, 2014.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, George Washington Custis Lee, 1832-1913, on horseback, with staff reviewing Confederate Reunion Parade in Richmond, Va., June 3, 1907, in front of monument to Jefferson Davis, photographic print.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, DC 20540, Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection, Drinking fountain on the county courthouse lawn, Halifax, North Carolina, 1938.
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. African American man talking to a caucasian man sitting at a table. New York Public Library Digital Collections.
Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries, Harper’s Weekly publication on June 14, 1890, A depiction of the scene at the Lee monument unveiling, drawn by T. De Thulstrup from a photograph.
Niday Picture Library, Murder of a Negro at Mrs. Carter's House in Pattenburg, NJ, 1872.
NCSU Libraries Digital Collections, President Alexander Q. Holladay and the first faculty of North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, 1889.
NCSU Libraries Digital Collections, Bird's-eye view of North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts looking east toward 1911 Building and Court of North Carolina, 1910.
NCSU Libraries Digital Collections, North Carolina State College of Agriculture & Mechanic Arts President Alexander Q. Holladay, faculty, and first freshman class in front of main building, 1890.
State Archives of North Carolina Digital Collections, North Carolina Women of the Confederacy monument unveiling, photographic prints, 1914.
State Archives of North Carolina Digital Collections, photograph from the Albert Barden Collection, North Carolina State Archives, NC State Capitol, Raleigh, NC, from east, 1908, Zeb B Vance statue.
Daniel Harvey Hill Jr. was the first librarian and English professor at North Carolina State University. While exploring his legacy on campus, this video biography also delves into D.H. Hill Jr.'s role in proliferating the myth of Lost Cause narrative in postwar American society.
For Further Reading:
Daniel Harvey Hill (1859 - 1924) Papers, MC 00022, Special Collections Research Center, North Carolina State University Libraries, Raleigh, NC.
Gallagher, Gary W., and Alan T. Nolan. The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010.
Hegtvedt, Karen A., and Jody Clay-Warner. Conflict and Justice after the American Civil War: Inclusion and Exclusion in the Reconstruction and Jim Crow Eras. In Justice (Advances in Group Processes), 55-85. Vol. 25. Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
Blight, David W. Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2002.
Towns, W. Stuart. Enduring Legacy: Rhetoric and Ritual of the Lost Cause. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2012.
Freedman's Bank 150th Anniversary Celebration
On March 3, 2015, Operation HOPE Forums and the Afro-American History Society of the National Archives (AAHS) will recognize the 150th anniversary of the Freedman's Bank. Established on March 3, 1865, by President Abraham Lincoln, the Bank was a landmark institution that had over $57 million in deposits and 70,000 depositors. The Bank's records remain the single largest repository of lineage-linked African-American genealogy, containing upwards of 480,000 names.
Members of AAHS will present Freedman's Bank records at the National Archives, and there will be a moderated discussion with Operation HOPE Founder John Hope Bryant, Ambassador Andrew Young, ESSENCE Magazine Editor-In-Chief Vanessa DeLuca, and other dignitaries on the historical significance of the Bank and how its unfinished journey still resonates today in issues of poverty, income inequality, and race relations. A reception will follow.
The event is free and open to the public, register online.
Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad
A panel discusses the true story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them. Ed Ayers, President of the University of Richmond, moderates Eric Foner, author of Gateway to Freedom; Edna Greene Medford, professor of history at Howard University; and Adam Rothman. A book signing will follow the program.
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Episode 59. Ed Hamilton - Intnl Renowned American Monument Sculptor - MoxieTalk with Kirt Jacobs
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Episode 59. Ed Hamilton - Internationally Renowned American Monument Sculptor
Interviewed 05-30-2008
ABOUT ED HAMILTON
Ed Hamilton has always been driven by a need to create and discover something new.
Hamilton is an internationally renowned monument sculptor. His most famous work is The Spirit of Freedom, a memorial to black Civil War veterans, that stands in Washington, DC, in the Shaw neighborhood near Howard University.
BIOGRAPHY & FULL LENGTH EPISODE
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Military Lessons: The U.S. Military in the Post-Vietnam Era (1999)
The Vietnam War called into question the U.S. Army doctrine. Marine Corps General Victor H. Krulak heavily criticised Westmoreland's attrition strategy, calling it wasteful of American lives... with small likelihood of a successful outcome. In addition, doubts surfaced about the ability of the military to train foreign forces.
Between 1965 and 1975, the United States spent $111 billion on the war ($686 billion in FY2008 dollars). This resulted in a large federal budget deficit.
More than 3 million Americans served in the Vietnam War, some 1.5 million of whom actually saw combat in Vietnam. James E. Westheider wrote that At the height of American involvement in 1968, for example, there were 543,000 American military personnel in Vietnam, but only 80,000 were considered combat troops.
Conscription in the United States had been controlled by the President since World War II, but ended in 1973.
By war's end, 58,220 American soldiers had been killed, more than 150,000 had been wounded, and at least 21,000 had been permanently disabled. According to Dale Kueter, Sixty-one percent of those killed were age 21 or younger. Of those killed in combat, 86.3 percent were white, 12.5 percent were black and the remainder from other races. The youngest American KIA in the war was PFC Dan Bullock, who had falsified his birth certificate and enlisted in the US Marines at age 14 and who was killed in combat at age 15. Approximately 830,000 Vietnam veterans suffered symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder. An estimated 125,000 Americans fled to Canada to avoid the Vietnam draft, and approximately 50,000 American servicemen deserted. In 1977, United States President Jimmy Carter granted a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all Vietnam-era draft dodgers. The Vietnam War POW/MIA issue, concerning the fate of U.S. service personnel listed as missing in action, persisted for many years after the war's conclusion.
Hamilton Hatter Part 2 - Books Are The Holy Road
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With generous, community-minded support from American Public University System. (The sentiments in this production do not in any way reflect modern-day policies of APUS). More at
Researched, Written, Produced, Narrated - Jim Surkamp
Musicians
My Heart is in the Mountains from Lantern in a Poet's Garden, Poem by Daniel Bedinger Lucas (public domain) Music by Terry Tucker, c (the copyright symbol) 2010, GHF Music, (terrytucker.net)
Cam Millar - Tumble Blue 2, Waterdogs 1 (cammillar.com)
Shana Aisenberg - twelve-string guitar, banjo copyright Shana Aisenberg. (shanasongs.com)
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References:
Burke, Dawne R. (2006). “An American Phoenix: A History of Storer College from Slavery to Desegregation,” Pittsburgh, PA: Geyer Printing House.
Crayon, Porte. (Strother, David H.) “Our Negro Schools” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, New York, NY: Harper and Bros. Volume 49 Issue 292 (September, 1874).
“Sarah Jane Foster: Teacher of the Freedman, The Diary and Letters of a Maine Woman in the South After the Civil War,” Picton Press: Rockport, ME., 2001, Wayne E. Reilly editor.
Stealey, John E. “The Freedmen’s Bureau in West Virginia.” West Virginia History 39 (Jan/April 1978): 99-142.
Taylor, James L. “A History of Black Education in Jefferson County, West Virginia, 1866-1966.”
Trowbridge, John T. (1866). “The South: a tour of its battlefields and ruined cities, a journey through the desolated states, and talks with the people: being a description of the present state of the country – its agriculture – railroads – business and finances.” Hartford, Conn., L. Stebbins.
Image Credits:
Harvesters at Rest by Harry Roseland
From National Park Service, Harpers Ferry:
Faculty member - Storer College
Storer College seal
Bates College seal - Bates College
Hamilton Hatter (later years) - Bluefield
Brown, Howell S. “Map of Jefferson County, Virginia From Actual Surveys With Farm Limits, 1852.”
A Freedman’s Bureau agent - Harper's Weekly, July 25, 1868, p. 473.
From King, Edward. (1875). “The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland:” Illustrated by Champney, James Wells. Hartford, Conn. American Publishing Co. Print.
p. 695 - pump
By David Hunter Strother - West Virginia University
contraband 1862
boy on horseback
From Strother, David Hunter “Our Negro Schools,” (September 1874), “Harper’s New Monthly Magazine.”
p. 457 - silhouettes of children playing
p. 458 - boy reading book
p. 459 - boy not at school
p. 460 - older student
p. 461 - young teach the old
p. 461 - woman at blackboard
p. 467 - boys huddled on the ground
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Sunday Morning In Virginia, 1877 - Cincinnati Art Museum
Blackboard, 1877 - National Gallery of Art
Uncle Ned at Home, 1875
Charlestown Looking to Route 340
Thomas Biscoe - West Virginia & Regional Collection
By Henry Ossawa Tanner:
The Banjo Lesson, 1893
The Thankful Poor, 1894
By Eastman Johnson:
Musical Instrument, 1860
Dinah, The Negress, (1866-1869)
Negro Boy, 1860
Good Morning From Harpers Ferry by Edward L Henry
Image of Achilles Dixon home (p. 10).
From Taylor, James L. “A History of Black Education in Jefferson County, West Virginia, 1866-1966.”
Logan Osburn - courtesy Don Amoroso
Boy running to school detail from drawing of Colyer’s School North Carolina
Cover - Ray’s Primary Arithmetic 1857 edition
Group photograph of African-American school children, 1895, location unknown.
Freedman’s School - Illustration of Freedman in school from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 1883.
Woman Reading by Candlelight - 1908 by Peter Ilsted
The Misses Cooke's school room, Freedman's Bureau, Richmond, Va. - Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), Harper's weekly, 1868 July 25, p. 473.
Harpers Ferry 1872 by Granville Perkins
Silas Curtis - findagrave.com
Godey’s Fashions for September 1862
“C for Christ” page from”The Tract Primer” published by the American Tract Society, 1841
H. R. 613 - Bill amending the Freedmen”s Bureau enactment - National Archives
Pile of bricks - 2005, Author: Tasja - wikimedia.org
Wheeling, West Virginia Independence Hall - wikipedia.org
Detail from Wheeling Custom House - Harper's Weekly, July 6, 1861.
Sarah Jane Foster - Courtesy of Carolyn Reilly
From Library of Congress:
Freedmen’s Bureau Teacher's Monthly Report, Little Rock, Arkansas, March 24, 1865
Hon. Arthur Ingrham Boreman
Contraband camp
Glimpses at the Freedmen - The Freedmen's Union Industrial School, Richmond, Va.
Text of the Emancipation Proclamation from L. N. Rosenthal, The Proclamation of Emancipation, Lithograph, 1865.
African-American Passages: Black Lives in the 19th Century
Adam Rothman discussed documents from the Library's manuscript collection relating to the lives of African-Americans in the 19th century in a conversation with Jesse J. Holland.
Adam Rothman is a professor of history at Georgetown University and a visiting scholar at the John W. Kluge Center in the Library of Congress. - Jesse J. Holland is an award-winning journalist, novelist and author of The Invisibles: The Untold Story of African American Slaves in the White House.
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In 1814, Zephaniah Kingsley moved to Fort George Island and what is known today as the Kingsley Plantation. He brought a wife and three children (a fourth would be born at Fort George). His wife, Anna Madgigine Jai, was from Senegal, West Africa, and was purchased by Kingsley as a slave. She actively participated in plantation management, acquiring her own land and slaves when freed by Kingsley in 1811.
With an enslaved work force of about 60, the Fort George plantation produced Sea Island cotton, citrus, sugar cane, and corn. Kingsley continued to acquire property in north Florida and eventually possessed more than 32,000 acres, including four major plantation complexes and more than 200 slaves.
The United States purchased Florida from Spain in 1821. The Spanish had relatively liberal policies regarding issues of race, but American territorial law brought many changes. At a time when many slaveholders feared slave rebellions, oppressive laws were enacted and conditions for Florida's black population, free and enslaved, deteriorated. Kingsley was against the restrictive laws, arguing that more humane treatment would ensure peace and the perpetuation of slavery. In 1828, he published his opinions in A Treatise on The Patriarchal, or Co-operative System of Society As It Exists in Some Governments . . . Under the Name of Slavery.
To escape what Kingsley called a spirit of intolerant prejudice, Anna Jai and their sons moved to Haiti in 1837. There, Kingsley established a colony for his family and some of his former slaves. In 1839, Fort George Island was sold to his nephew Kingsley Beatty Gibbs. Zephaniah Kingsley died in New York City in 1843.
Kingsley Plantation symbolizes a time and a place in history. More than that, Kingsley Plantation represents people, free and enslaved, ordinary and extraordinary, and their efforts to survive in a changing land. The stories of these people, often heroic, and their contributions to history can be explored at Kingsley Plantation.
In the early years of the nineteenth century, the population of Spanish Florida was small but diverse. Americans and Europeans came seeking wealth by obtaining land and establishing plantations. The forced labor of enslaved Africans secured that wealth. Those Africans who were freed by their owners or who purchased their own freedom became farmers, tradesmen, or black militiamen who helped protect the colony. On the frontier, away from the settlements and plantations, the Seminole Indians and the Black Seminoles kept an uneasy vigil on the encroaching development of Florida.
Among those striving for freedom and security in Spanish Florida was Anna Kingsley. Anna was the African wife of plantation owner Zephaniah Kingsley. At an early age she survived the Middle Passage and dehumanizing slave markets to become the property of Kingsley. After manumission by her husband, Anna became a landowner and slaveholder. She raised her four children while managing a plantation that utilized African slave labor. She survived brutal changes in race policies and social attitudes brought by successive governments in Florida, but survival demanded difficult, often dangerous, choices.
Anna Kingsley was a woman of courage and determination. She is an example of the active role that people of color played in shaping their own destinies and our country's history in an era of slavery, oppression, and prejudice. She left, however, no personal descriptions of her life. She was not a famous or powerful person who figured prominently in accounts of that era. Today we must find Anna in the official documents of her time and in the historic structures that she inhabited. There, her story may be discovered...
C-SPAN's LCV Profile: St. John's Church
C-SPAN's Local Content Vehicles are traveling the country, visiting cities and towns as we look at our nation's history. In this segment, we take you to Richmond, Virginia and St. John's Church where Patrick Henry made his famous Give me liberty or give me death oration.
Civil War Stories: The CSS Georgia
Reporter Nick Paradise tells the story of the Confederate war ship, the CSS Georgia. Special thanks to Michael Jordan of Cosmos Mariner Production for use of video from his documentary, A Tale of Two Georgias.