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It is tragic that the Civil War era is used to promote harmful divisions since it prevents us as a nation to gaining a full understanding of the war as it truly is: a complex, a layered crisis that involves much time and attention in order to gain a…

Cash on hand when I started to the North: $431.00
Cash received in New York for Cotton: $6529.82
$6960.82
Claracy 24 years old 2 sisters 18 and 12 and 2 children Cost…...925.00
Flora a woman of 22 years of age Cost…… 150.00
Siseney a woman…

Hallowfax Courthouse on May 21st 1824
Judge Thomas Ruffin,
I was anxious to have seen your I past (sic) through N. Carolina, but knowing my Cituation (sic) I thought it best not. I past (sic) my old naborhood (sic) and saw a few of my friends.…

Caswell, 15th January 1822
Mr. Ruffin,
Dear Sir, On Sunday last I had an interview with my Brother William Anderson, on the subject of business of which you spoke to me on Saturday Evening. He appears disposed to enter into business of that nature…

The said parties here agree and do hereby agree to carry on together & as copartners the purchasing of slaves & selling the same, upon the following terms. ___ the said Ruffin is to put in & hath at the execution of these presents put in as his part…

EMANCIPATION DAY Our friends, the negro chasers, opened their political campaign in behalf of their Constitutional Amendment on Emancipation Day. The selection of the day was characteristically tactful. --- Asheville Gazette (Republican organ.) No…

Although I have lived in the South most of my life, I did not realize that there were any current debates over what caused the Civil War. What I have come to learn is that there are misinterpretations about the Civil War era that still exist today. …

The following letter was printed in the April 13, 1863, issue of the Spirit of the Age.

Deteriorating Influences of War. No. I

This important topic justly claims the attention of all good men and women; for it has a direct bearing upon the…

Amendment Good For All Parties. Twelve Conclusive Reasons Why Democrats, Populists, Republicans and Negroes should Support the Amendment. Below we sum up twelve reasons why the members of every party ought to support the Constitutional…