Confederacy and a mentally challenged blind slave: linked by the soundtrack of civil war.
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Category: Essays/Prose, history
Tags: 2nd Battle of Bull Run, Abraham Lincoln quote, battle of manassas, blind tom, civil war, Confederacy last slave, General Bethune, kendall f. person, the rain storm, Thomas Blind Tom Wiggins
As Detroit West Virginia goes, so goes the nation.
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Category: history, race
Tags: collective identity, Confederacy, Detroit West Virginia, inspirational, kendall f. person, middle passage, national public radio, pureness politicized sport, the fear and loathing of, walk different way