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Ely Williamson claim remarks
Remarks by the Claims Commissioner on the claim of Mr. Williamson, which says that he was a freedman before the war
Census Record of Thomas Day, 1850
This document presents the census record for Thomas Day, a free black man, taken during 1850 in Caswell County. The census listed not only how many free people lived within a certain area, but it also showed how many slaves each person owned. Thomas…
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David Blight, Race and Reunion (2001)
In his award-winning book, Race and Reunion, David Blight, a historian at Yale University, examines how Americans remembered the Civil War from the…