Charleston Under Arms
A Connecticut Yankee visits Charleston during the Fort Sumter standoff
The Reign of King Cotton
In 1861, the grandson of President John Quincy Adams (and great-granson of President John Adams) argued that the nature of the cotton trade itself contained the seeds of slavery's demise
Life in the Iron Mills
"This is what I want you to do. I want you to hide your disgust, take no heed to your clean clothes, and come right down with me—here, into the thickest of the fog and foul effluvia. I want you to hear this story."
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