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The Raid on Harpers Ferry
For the bulk of the early 19th Century, slaveholders in the South had a deep fear that a slave revolt would erupt and metastasize, leading to an eradication of the institution, similar to what happened in Haiti in the first years of the 19th Century. In 1859, John Brown, one of the instigators in Bleeding […]
MoreThe Communications Revolution
Not long after the end of the War of 1812, America was undergoing a communications revolution.
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