Carl Schurz, Report on Conditions in the South (1865)
... mind to legislate calmly and understandingly upon the subject of free negro labor. And this I reported to be the opinion of some of our most prominent military commanders and other observing men. It is, indeed, difficult to imagine circumstances more unfavorable for the development of a calm and unp ...
... mind to legislate calmly and understandingly upon the subject of free negro labor. And this I reported to be the opinion of some of our most prominent military commanders and other observing men. It is, indeed, difficult to imagine circumstances more unfavorable for the development of a calm and unp ...
3. The Dabneys Black Civil War Spies
... explain the signs to him. They did so, and found that he could (readily) understand and remember the meaning of the various movements. � Not long after, his wife, who had come with him, expressed a great anxiety to be allowed to go over to the other side as a servant to a "secesh woman," whom Genera ...
... explain the signs to him. They did so, and found that he could (readily) understand and remember the meaning of the various movements. � Not long after, his wife, who had come with him, expressed a great anxiety to be allowed to go over to the other side as a servant to a "secesh woman," whom Genera ...
Spring 2012 - Camp Douglas Restoration Foundation
... Freedom to Read As the Union forces pushed south, they were met by wave upon wave of Negroes fleeing their enslavement. The myth of happy contented slaves was shattered for the army of soldiers and accompanying newspaper journalists. Perhaps even more enlightening as to the nature of slavery was the ...
... Freedom to Read As the Union forces pushed south, they were met by wave upon wave of Negroes fleeing their enslavement. The myth of happy contented slaves was shattered for the army of soldiers and accompanying newspaper journalists. Perhaps even more enlightening as to the nature of slavery was the ...