I apologize for the delay! As you can see by previous blog posts, I've been down South for a few weeks, and I haven't had much time to work on the most recent video.
165 years ago this week: Arkansas passes a bill to rid the state of all free African Americans; Virginia is not pleased with President Buchanan; Abraham Lincoln as speaker & lawyer on his 50th birthday; Louisiana politicians discuss a bill that would allow them to import enslaved people from outside the U.S.; Edwin Stanton; Pierce Mease Butler squanders his fortune & it's the enslaved people that will pay.
As always, I invite you to join me each week (Tuesday) as I spotlight people & events that eventually lead us into the four-year battle. If you'd like to start at the beginning, there is a playlist of all recap videos to-date, starting with January 1, 1859.
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