Occupied Women: Gender, Military Occupation, and the American Civil War
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Born a slave circa 1818 (slaves weren't told when they were born) on a plantation in Maryland, Douglass taught himself to read and write. In 1845, seven years after escaping to the North, he published…
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A landmark account of the African American experience during the Civil War and its aftermath.
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Apostles of Disunion: Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War
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