Born in Georgia in 1814, George W. Ashburn was a White man cut from a similar cloth as American abolitionist John Brown. Although Ashburn was a southerner, born and raised, Ashburn believed in the immediate, complete, permanent eradication of slavery …
Why Abraham Lincoln REALLY Freed The Slaves
The Civil War began because wealthy Southern Planters were beside themselves that an Anti-Slavery candidate had won the Presidential Election. Outside of former President John Quincy Adams, there had always been a sitting President who had been either a Slave owner …
Sherman’s Bootstraps
The emancipation of the enslaved African in the final throws of the Civil War was nothing like you see in the movies. In movies, we are often presented with a clear hero and a clear villain. The hero’s goal is …