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.
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.
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.
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.