War era letters reveal slave sale memories and rebel doubts
A Hartford Press excerpt reproduces an officer’s letter recounting a enslaved mother describing the sale of her child and the impact of emancipation. The narrative contrasts freedpeople’s uncertain status with slaveholders’ fall from power as a rebel colonel laments material collapse and waning support.
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Monitor's Naval Fame and Maryland Slavery News
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