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EMANCIPATION

FREEDOM CLAIMED, FREEDOM PROCLAIMED, FREEDOM MADE CONSTITUTIONA Emancipation was not a single gift bestowed from above. It was freedom claimed by enslaved people, adopted as war policy, defended by Black soldiers, and secured in the […]

United States

THE BANK WAR

J ackson regarded the Second Bank of the United States as a dangerous concentration of financial privilege. The Bank was privately owned but federally chartered, held government deposits and helped regulate credit and currency. Its […]