I can't wait to call you my wife : African American letters of love, marriage, and family in the Civil War era
(2022)
By:
Roberts, Rita
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
973.708996/ROBERTS,R
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books, [2022]
ISBN/ISSN
9781797213729, 1797213725 :, 1797213725, 9781797213729
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Antebellum -- "I can ashore you I think highly of freedom and would not exchange it for nothing" -- Civil War -- "My children I have not forgot you and be assured that I will have you if it cost me my life" -- In the aftermath of war -- "Send me some of the children's hair"
"A collection of letters exchanged between African Americans during the Civil War era"--