The Explainer: The ‘Curse of Ham’ – how people of faith used a story in Genesis to justify slavery
PAUL HAM, a lecturer in narrative history, looks at how “a grotesque misuse of the very words of the Bible” has been used to support the idea of slavery…
In the US state of Virginia, Richmond removes last public Confederate monument
Reuters A Black-owned construction business on Monday dismantled and removed the last public Confederate statue on display in Richmond, Virginia, the city that served as the capital of the Confederacy during the US Civil War. The memorial to Ambrose Powell Hill, a Confederate general killed in battle days before the war ended in April, 1865, […]
Lifestory: National Guard sleeping in the Capitol an echo of Civil War
As National Guard troops sleep in the US Capitol ahead of this week’s presidential inauguration, ALLEN G BREED, of Associated Press, recalls the experience of his great-grandfather, a doctor during the American Civil War…