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Liza Rodman's avatar

Beautiful piece. There was and is still, so much beautiful about the escaping Contrabands as they worked for a Union victory and full emancipation for themselves and all enslaved people. It’s about time we heard all about it.

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Steven T. Corneliussen's avatar

Thanks. That’s why it takes two sentences when I regularly repeat this:

Nothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that Americans will esteem the Civil War's multitudes of freedom-striving, emancipation-forcing slavery escapees. Just not yet.

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