I Cant Wait to Call You My Wife: African American Letters of Love and Family in the Civil War Era Roberts Rita
I Cant Wait to Call You My Wife: African American Letters of Love and Family in the Civil War Era Roberts Rita This book honors the voices of African Americans of the Civil War era through their…
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I Cant Wait to Call You My Wife: African American Letters of Love and Family in the Civil War Era Roberts Rita
This book honors the voices of African Americans of the Civil War era through their letters, inviting readers to engage personally with the Black historical experience.Amidst bloody battles and political maneuvering, thousands of African Americans spent the Civil War trying to hold their families together. Despite harsh laws against literacy and brutal practices that broke apart Black families, people found ways to write to each other against all odds. This moving book illuminates that struggle through the letters they exchanged.
In these pages, readers will meet parents who are losing hope of ever seeing their children again and a husband who walks fifteen miles to visit his wife, enslaved on a different plantation.The collection also includes tender courtship letters exchanged between Lewis Henry Douglass and Helen Amelia Loguen, both children of noted abolitionists,