Re-Written, Revised History is dangerous in Politics. and it seems to be a new tactic, if you don't like how your side is portrayed, ignore the facts and rewrite history. , but that is why god created sources. 
i really hate when people Spout knowledge as historical fact without citing sources. Whether they are bloggers or governors.
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From the website: The African Slave Trade and Newport, Rhode Island share common origins. Newport, one of the most prosperous of Colonial American ports, saw unprecedented growth throughout the 18th century; mostly from the export and trade of rum, spermaceti candles and slaves ( Read more... )

Spurrier: We don't need the Confederate flagCOLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- The Confederate flag shouldn't fly at the Statehouse, South Carolina football coach Steve Spurrier said Saturday after the Gamecocks' annual spring game ( Read more... )

Service seeks reconciliation over 1916 lynching ( Read more... )

1639 The Virginia House of Burgesses passed the first legislation to exclude blacks from the militia ( Read more... )

Hi everyone--my name is Jessica and I just joined the community so I thought I'd introduce myself.  My particular area of interest in African American history is the civil rights movement.  In fact, the class I am currently taking on the modern civil rights movement is what inspired my interest in African American history to begin with.

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Another community alerted me to this man who I guess was mentioned in Slavery and the Making of America....

http://www.robertsmalls.org/

In 1862 Robert Smalls, a 23-year-old mulatto slave, was employed [pressed is more like it] by Confederates in Charleston, S.C. as pilot of Planter, ( Read more... )

African Americans Offended By Comparison Made By Gay Marriage Activists
By Jimmy Moore
Talon News
March 8, 2004

( for example, the circumstances behind Aframerican marriage, when, and if there is a comparison to be made, historically speaking )