The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750-1925, Volume 10This book provides an exhaustively researched history of black families in America from the days of slavery until just after the Civil War. |
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... colored soldiers yesterday in their madness swear desperately that they would have revenge . And they will , ” Wright privately confided to a northern friend . " I tremble as do many of the officers in the colored regiments , when I ...
... colored soldiers yesterday in their madness swear desperately that they would have revenge . And they will , ” Wright privately confided to a northern friend . " I tremble as do many of the officers in the colored regiments , when I ...
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... colored people who have little more than they " ) ; and Norfolk , Virginia ( “ a slender mother . . . supporting herself , one child of her own , and two orphans , " and a sixty - year - old woman caring for her dead brother's five ...
... colored people who have little more than they " ) ; and Norfolk , Virginia ( “ a slender mother . . . supporting herself , one child of her own , and two orphans , " and a sixty - year - old woman caring for her dead brother's five ...
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... colored women , ' Aunts Adeline and Margaret ' ... in charge . " Just after the war ended , blacks either helped start or entirely sustained Beaufort , Charleston , and Mobile orphanages . Sometime in the summer or fall of 1865 , Mobile ...
... colored women , ' Aunts Adeline and Margaret ' ... in charge . " Just after the war ended , blacks either helped start or entirely sustained Beaufort , Charleston , and Mobile orphanages . Sometime in the summer or fall of 1865 , Mobile ...
Contents
The Birthpangs of a World | 1 |
Because She Was My Cousin | 45 |
I ΙΟΙ | 101 |
Copyright | |
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