What is Slavery? (What is History?) Section- The Confederacy living far from home

living far from home

“Roe” Reisinger of the 150th Pennsylvania Infantry

Lincoln feared that the war could end in Union victory with slavery still intact

In considering human efforts to find military and political advantage by reshaping the natural world

What is Slavery? (What is History?) Section- The Confederacy living far from homeby Brenda Stevenson What is slavery? It seems a simple enough question. Despite the long history of the institution and its widespread use around the globe, many people still largely associate slavery, outside of the biblical references in the Old Testament, to the enslavement of Africans in America, particularly the United States. Slavery proved to be essential to the creation of the young nations agricultural and industrial economies and profoundly