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At 3:55 PM -0500 3/2/01, Brent Tarter wrote:
>The Museum of the Confederacy's 2001 Lecture Series entitled "The Debate
>Over Black Confederates Then & Now,"
One of my favorite Civil War documents is a letter signed by the free
black businesspeople of Petersburg, offering to help defend Virginia
against the Yankee invader. This was early in the war, when a Yankee
warship was coming upriver, supposedly to attack, rape, pillage, and
all that other nasty stuff. The first message on the pile is from
the blacks.
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Ned Heite ([log in to unmask])
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