Whatever Happened To ... the African American Civil War Tour?
By Kris Coronado, Published: October 6Seven years ago, Asa Gordon’s battle seemed like an uphill one: getting his fellow African Americans to see the Civil War as their own heritage. “They say, ‘I don’t want to hear that, that’s their story,’ ” he told The Washington Post in November ( Read more... )

On January 15, 2011, a group in St. Louis, MO reenacted a slave auction on the steps of the Old Courthouse.

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (NNPA)-Surrounded by ancient live oaks and stately palms, Kingsley Plantation overlooks the Fort George River on Fort George Island in the Timucuan Preserve just outside Jacksonville. The rich and diverse history of the Plantation includes the story of wealthy English planter Zephaniah Kingsley and his wife Anna Madgigine Jai, ( Read more... )

1946 event recreated in hopes of jarring memories, consciences ( Read more... )

Juneteenth observed with slavery re-enactment ( Read more... )

Letters to the Editor ( Read more... )

Ala. camp provides uniquely intense history lessons ( Read more... )

NEWS- $250 man: Slave auction stirs passions ( Read more... )

White mob drag, shoot 4 black sharecroppersATLANTA - Activists marched Saturday near the site where four black sharecroppers were killed in 1946, hoping publicity about the lynchings would cause someone to step forward with information so the deaths could join the list of civil rights-era cases being prosecuted ( Read more... )

I found this article while searching for colonial re-enactors in Massachusetts. Although this article is only a couple years old, the Colored Ladies are no longer practicing- from what the Royall House director has written me.

It is nice though to see how the community--from Tufts and Medford--came together.

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