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Appomattox effectively ending the civil war. This hourlong talk was part of a symposium hosted by the emerging civil war blog. There is something to the saying the best for last. Of the many books we have talked about and the authors we have talked about, i have never seen a more solid piece of writing come across my desk then i did when this first rap of the dawn of victory appeared in my inbox. We develop a manuscript and chris will work on history and when edward sent me the donna victory it was pristine. Ive never said that about a manuscript before. Remember, i get paid to help deconstruct peoples writing. Ive never seen a piece of writing more magnificent and believable. A story that is often overlooked. Forget about petersburg. It is so overlooked and so underrated and edward does such a magnificent job doing justice to an incredible phase of the civil war. Literally, the make it or break it point. It is the breaking point that leads to the end. Without further a do, i would lik
Werent they foreign country . That is what he said. You say you are a foreign country. I guess u. S. Laws dont apply to you. So he said, im confiscating these three men as contraband property of war. They were used in service of the confederacy. Now they are union property. He even gave the confederate soldier a receipt. So what is contraband . This spreads incredibly quickly. Through newspapers rub the north. All of a sudden you see minstrel shows of the contraband. It becomes a now, part of common parlance. Is something of a legal trick. Is in in between status. Matter slave nor free. You are a ward of the government. You are a piece of property like smuggled goods but you are a person. Your labor is useful. But whatever the ambiguities of contraband, it definitely is a link to emancipation. We can save fort monroe is the birthplace of the emancipation because this contraband decision does one of two things. It makes congress recognize they first, have to do something. Congress sanct