The Civil War in the United States
Marx writing in Die Presse No. 306, November 7, 1861. Marx makes explicit his concern that the Confederacy might win the US civil war, and that this would result in the system of slavery being expanded to the North.
Joseph Weydemeyer: a German-American for socialism and black rights - Abbet Sebastien
A short biography of Joseph Weydemeyer, followed by an appendix that includes translations of Weydemeyer's articles 'On the Negro Vote' and 'The Eight-Hour Movement'.
Black Reconstruction in America: W.E.B. Du Bois
W.E.B. Du Bois's massive essay about the Reconstruction period in the aftermath of the US Civil War. Du Bois argues that the period represented an potential revolutionary moment in which the southern black population played an active and crucial role.
State of the Union: Marx and America’s Unfinished Revolution – Robin Blackburn
Submitted by Craftwork on Nov 25 2016 19:30
Robin Blackburn on the failure of post-Civil War attempts to extend egalitarian impulses across race lines and factory floors, amid the sharpening class struggles of the Gilded Age. From New Left Review #61, January-February 2010.
The faux-wokeness of film reviews: in defense of The Free State of Jones
A response by Crystal Stella Becerril and Jason Netek of some reviews of the movie, The Free State of Jones.
An unfinished revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln - Robin Blackburn
Submitted by Craftwork on Sep 16 2016 14:47
Examines the impact of the American Civil War on Karl Marx, and Karl Marx on America.
The Combahee River raid, 1863 - Earl Conrad
Submitted by Steven. on Jul 5 2016 11:04
A short account of the Combahee River raid during the American Civil War, which was led by former slave and underground railroad activist Harriet Tubman, and freed nearly 800 slaves.
Reconstruction: America's unfinished revolution, 1863-1877 - Eric Foner
This masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history redefined how Reconstruction was viewed by historians and people everywhere in its chronicling of how Americans -- black and white -- responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery.
"The American blindspot": Reconstruction according to Eric Foner and W.E.B. Du Bois - Noel Ignatiev
Noel Ignatiev's review of two books about Reconstruction, which was the period in American history where the victorious Northern federal government attempted to transform the state and society in the South.
Après moi le déluge! Fossil fuel abolitionism and the carbon bubble - part 2
Submitted by Out of the Woods on Apr 21 2014 07:39
In part two of this two-part article, we look at the parallels between fossil-fuel abolitionism and the abolition of slavery in the 19th century United States.
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