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Old myths frustrate modern hopes

Old myths frustrate modern hopes If you grew up white, Southern and embedded in the successor class to the Antebellum gentry, you’ve likely heard it — more than once: “I was always told that they treated them like family.” “Them”...

Family stories of the Underground Railroad

By Ted R. Kunstling; Edited by Cheri Todd Molter Excerpted from Ramblings of a Country Boy, by Stephen Arthur Cohagan (my grandfather), written in 1953 (private papers): “Grandfather [John Pugh Jay] and Grandmother [Rachel Commons Jay] maintained a station in...

The South before the war: an island in time

The South before the war: an island in time The first thing a modern time-traveler would notice, on arrival in the antebellum South, would most likely be the silence. There might be movement among dry leaves, or the snort of a horse. Bird songs, surely, and,...