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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC00919.25.24 |
| From Archive Folder | Collection of Elias W. Beach |
| Title | Dane to a friend or family member, Carrie, away at school |
| Date | 5 November 1862 |
| Author | Dane (fl. 1862) |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Written to a friend (or family member) away at school. Comments on news of friends, family, and recent events in Chester. Writes, "Since you left here our village population has been honorably in[creased] by a colony of Negroes- bucks, wenches... how would you like to live in a house with a negro family? Benj Bright has got home again and brought a negro with him dont you think we will have enough negroes soon?" |
| Subjects | African American History Slavery Freemen Women's History |
| People | Beach, Elias William (1841-1921) |
| Place written | Chester, Ohio |
| Theme | The American Civil War; Education; African Americans |
| Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |