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2026-06-06 18:40 UTC

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 Intellectual Map 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/1up 5/14

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@Deglassco@mastodon.social 2026-06-06 18:47

More Primary Sources Records of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. National Archives. https://catalog.archives.gov/search?q=%22SIL!mig%2Ffb%22 Herbert, Hilary A., et al., eds. Why the Solid South? or Reconstruction and Its Results. Baltimore: R. H. Woodward, 1890. https://archive.org/details/WhyTheSolidSouth/page/n1/mode/1up Lynch, John Roy. The Facts of Reconstruction. New York: Neale Publishing, 1913. https://archive.org/details/factsofreconstruc00lync/page/n10/mode/1up Manly, Alexander. “The Daily Record Editorial.” August 18, 1898.. https://exhibits.lib.unc.edu/exhibits/show/1898/editorial 6/14

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@wtrmt@mastodon.social 2026-06-06 19:24

@Deglassco@mastodon.social today I listened to this family’s story about finding out who were their ancestors and what they did during the war: it really moved me. https://overcast.fm/+AAyIOyttEx0

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@Scotter@newsie.social 2026-06-06 19:25

@Deglassco@mastodon.social Are their names known. I love genealogy.

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@GeofCox@climatejustice.social 2026-06-06 20:20

@Deglassco@mastodon.social 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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