During the Civil War, Confederates targeted free Black people in the North, kidnapping them to sell into slavery. After the ...
The Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, had fallen into Union hands on April 2, 1865. Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia were forced to flee, but soon found themselves cut off ...
Robert Colby is a historian at the University of Mississippi. His first book, An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil ...
The exhibit begins in the museum's Visitor Center, with Tallahassee during the Civil War Era, and ends in the historic Riley House next door. It examines what life was like for ne ...
Norvel Lee was first introduced to the public and rose to prominence after he won the light heavyweight gold medal for boxing ...
A Civil War solider used hardtack in a crafty way.