Tag: slaves

• Colby 107: Holidays at the South

  

  Colby observes Christmas festivities far from his native New Hampshire …

  Marek

  2 February, 2015

  1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, corn, cows, NH history, SOURCE=HHS

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• Colby 54: Peaches

  

  1862: An intriguing meditation on property, slavery, and justice by our Northern narrator:

  Marek

  4 January, 2014

  1860s, 39th MA, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Freeman Colby, farms, NH history, peaches, SOURCE=HHS

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• Hawks 20: Their Environment

  

  1862: Dr. Esther confronts head-on the situation of the South Carolina Freedmen:

  Marek

  4 December, 2013

  1860s, 1st SC Volunteers, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Esther Hill Hawks, Esther Hill Hawks, Freedmen, Massachusetts, NH history, Reference Links

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• Hawks 19: The Lowest Type

  

  1862: Dr. Esther sets out to write about freedmen volunteering to fight for the union, but once again encounters her own racial prejudices …

  Marek

  2 December, 2013

  1860s, 1st SC Volunteers, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Esther Hill Hawks, Esther Hill Hawks, Freedmen, Massachusetts, NH history, Reference Links

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• Hawks 18: Morality

  

  1862: Dr. Esther’s observations of the “peculiar characteristics of the negro”:

  Marek

  14 November, 2013

  1860s, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Esther Hill Hawks, Esther Hill Hawks, Freedmen, Massachusetts, NH history

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• Hawks 17: Merely a Subterfuge

  

  1862: Dr. Esther suspects the former slaves are trying to trick her …

  Marek

  30 October, 2013

  1860s, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Esther Hill Hawks, Esther Hill Hawks, Freedmen, Massachusetts, NH history

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• Hawks 16: Praise & Pride

  

  1862: Many of Dr. Esther’s notes on the freedmen of South Carolina seem to mix equal parts observation and prejudice …

  Marek

  16 October, 2013

  1860s, Civil War, Civil War Diary of Esther Hill Hawks, Esther Hill Hawks, Massachusetts, NH history

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