Sentences with phrase «former confederacy»

The nine million white citizens and four million former slaves who lived in the former Confederacy faced a grim future.

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Some former presidents of the Tertiary Students» Confederacy Network (TESCON), in the Ashanti Region, have commended Ghana's High Commissioner to South Africa, George Ayisi Boateng, for making public his commitment to prioritize members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in his dealings with Ghanaians.

Free State of Jones (R for brutal battle scenes and disturbing images) Civil War saga about a white Mississippian (Matthew McConaughey) who leads fellow farmers and former slaves in an uprising against the Confederacy.

Leader: Fitzhugh Brundage, William B. Umstead Distinguished Professor; Department Chair, History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NHC Fellow 1995 — 96 Teacher Leader: Kevin Levin, Civil War historian and former history teacher Confederate monuments are the most common form of monumental public art in the former states of the Confederacy.

But following the defeat of the Confederacy, much of the land was returned to those same former plantation owners.

Landsman has been told, by the same loose confederacy of physicians, psychologists, and his former spouse, that alcohol will kill his gift for recollection, but so far, to his regret, this claim has proved false.

The 210,000 residents paid about $ 2,765 a year to insure their cars in Richmond, the capital of the Old Dominion and former capital of the Confederacy.