Few in St. Louis Knew Confederate Memorial Existed. Now, Many Want It Gone.

by | May 26, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Capital, Civil War (US) (1861-65), Economics, Finance, Monuments and Memorials (Structures), Non-Bank Loans, Slavery (Historical), St Louis (Mo), Working Capital

By JULIE BOSMAN May 26, 2017 ST. LOUIS — The angry, divisive fight over public symbols of the Confederacy has swept through Columbia, S.C., Birmingham, Ala., and New Orleans. This week, the debate made its way some 600 miles north, up the Mississippi...

Stories of New Orleans: As Monuments Go Down, Family Histories Emerge

by | May 24, 2017 | Bad Credit Loans, Bank Lending, Business Lending, Business Loans, Capital, Civil War (US) (1861-65), Davis, Jefferson F, Economics, Finance, Lee, Robert E, Monuments and Memorials (Structures), New Orleans (La), Non-Bank Loans, Slavery (Historical), Working Capital

By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON and KATY RECKDAHL May 24, 2017 NEW ORLEANS — The debate over the removal of four Confederate-era monuments has stewed here for nearly two years, longer than the city was under Confederate control, and it has not abated...

Tracing His Roots, Georgetown Employee Learns University Sold His Ancestor

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By AUDRA D.S. BURCH March 24, 2017 As a Georgetown employee, Jeremy Alexander watched as the university grappled with its haunted past: the sale of slaves in 1838 to help rescue it from financial ruin. He listened as Georgetown’s president...

Debunking a Myth: The Irish Were Not Slaves, Too

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By LIAM STACK March 17, 2017 It has shown up on Irish trivia Facebook pages, in Scientific American magazine, and on white nationalist message boards: the little-known story of the Irish slaves who built America, who are sometimes said to have outnumbered...

A Glimpse Into the Life of a Slave Sold to Save Georgetown

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By RACHEL L. SWARNS March 12, 2017 He was an enslaved teenager on a Jesuit plantation in Maryland on the night that the stars fell. It was November 1833, and meteor showers set the sky ablaze. His name was Frank Campbell. He would hold tight to that...

Yale Will Drop John Calhoun’s Name From Building

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The decision came after a series of protests from students, faculty and alumni who objected to honoring the 19th-century white supremacist statesman.