In 1865, the guns of the Civil War fell silent.
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Image: African American soldier in Union uniform with his wife and two daughters, 1863-1865. Liljenquist Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppss.00400
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Primary Sources
Congressional Globe. 39th Cong., 1st sess. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1866.
https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc30867/Douglass, Frederick. The Life and Writings of Frederick Douglass. Reconstruction and After. Edited by Philip S. Foner. Vol IV. New York: International Publishers, 1950–1975.
https://archive.org/details/lifewritingsoffr0000unse/page/n5/mode/1up5/14
Whenever I see pictures like this I feel a tremendous sense of responsibility, not for their troubles, but for their hopes and dreams - for any oppressed and exploited people that lived in the hope that their children, or somebody's children some day, would live in a better world. Mostly, people have lived without seeing much progress - our responsibility is to continue working for it, for them.
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In 1865, the guns of the Civil War fell silent. Many Northerners believed the nation had been remade. Good over evil. Right over wrong. But they underestimated the determination of those who had lost. The Civil War ended 161 years ago. Yet Americans are still arguing over the same questions: who counts as a citizen, who can vote, and whose America this is.
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Image: Two Black American Union soldiers, Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs, cia 1860s. Universal History Archive.
Thank you for this thread
And oh! The picture frame around those two soldiers. Someone treasured that photo
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@Deglassco
Are their names known. I love genealogy.@Scotter No, identity unknown.
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Thank you for this thread
And oh! The picture frame around those two soldiers. Someone treasured that photo
@NilaJones indeed.
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In 1865, the guns of the Civil War fell silent. Many Northerners believed the nation had been remade. Good over evil. Right over wrong. But they underestimated the determination of those who had lost. The Civil War ended 161 years ago. Yet Americans are still arguing over the same questions: who counts as a citizen, who can vote, and whose America this is.
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Image: Two Black American Union soldiers, Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs, cia 1860s. Universal History Archive.
@Deglassco look at that thousand-yard stare
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In 1865, the guns of the Civil War fell silent. Many Northerners believed the nation had been remade. Good over evil. Right over wrong. But they underestimated the determination of those who had lost. The Civil War ended 161 years ago. Yet Americans are still arguing over the same questions: who counts as a citizen, who can vote, and whose America this is.
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Image: Two Black American Union soldiers, Gladstone Collection of African American Photographs, cia 1860s. Universal History Archive.
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