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Category Archives: Slavery
Former Tennessee slave writes his former master
Dayton, Ohio, August 7, 1865 To My Old Master, Colonel P. H. Anderson, Big Spring, Tennessee Sir: I got your letter and was glad to find you had not forgotten Jourdan, and that you wanted me to come back and … Continue reading
Reprise: That Yankee-lovin’ parson
Dissent from Confederate political-correctness was not unusual in the Civil War, as professional historian Victoria Bynum’s book relates. Parson Bill Brownlow probably was unique, however, in his willingness to risk all by publicizing his dissent in the pages of his … Continue reading
Slavery in the North
Brutus and Natalie, the slaves/servants of widow Leila Ellis, are fictitious. But they represent what some moderns, in a simplistic good/evil dichotomy of the complicated Civil War, consider a unique Southern evil. They probably never heard of the Northern-financed slave … Continue reading
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Leadbetter at Mobile: Some slaves available
Confederate engineer Gen. Danville Leadbetter had no luck at all finding slaveholders willing to loan him their slave laborers to finish Fort Sanders, and so it remained only roughed-out when the Union took Knoxville. The planters of Alabama were just … Continue reading
The Contrabands
Captain Orlando Poe insists, to Parthenia Leila Ellis’s irritation, upon calling the slave/servants he conscripts for work on Fort Sanders and other parts of the Union’s defensive perimeter “contrabands.” It had been common usage in the Union army from the … Continue reading
Slavery in Tennessee
The novel’s Leila Ellis’s inheritance of the house slaves Natalie and Brutus from her wealthy late husband Clayton is in keeping with the facts of Tennessee slavery, according to Bobby Lovett, a historian of slavery at Tennessee State University: “In … Continue reading
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Tagged Bobby Lovett, Knoxville 1863, Tennessee slavery
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Those black troops guarding Castle Fox
The thousands of free black men who served in the United States Colored Troops, as they were called, did not escape discrimination just because they were risking their lives serving the Union cause. Their only involvement in the Knoxville siege … Continue reading
Ambulances
Easily the most popular conveyance of the war, among officers and privates alike, because of its suspension system, was the two-mule ambulance. Captain Orlando Poe used one to deliver his volunteer and conscripted “contraband” servant/slaves back to their owners— including … Continue reading
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French seams
Some slaves/servants were highly-skilled domestic craftsmen. The widow Ellis’s housekeeper/slave Natalie, for instance, was skilled at sewing French seams in silk, while her mistress was terrified of sewing silk at all. The French seam remains in use because it is … Continue reading
