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Subject:	Re: African Americans and the Confederacy
From:	Ned Heite <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Fri, 2 Mar 2001 16:06:18 -0500
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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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