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All too often, the sources I use to study the enslaved do not even name them as individuals. So it's a delight to name them and bring them more fully into the narrative. Today, that means tracing George C. Smith, freed by the 1st MI Inf. from the slave pen of Price, Birch & Co.pic.twitter.com/QiPzw0DMlS
Letters and newspapers noted that the 1st MI freed 1, 3, or several people from the pen, supplying scattered details. One gave a name. Another said that one captive had been sent from Maryland to avoid his flight/liberation. A third that one had left w/the reg and later enlisted.
A little digging (thank goodness for Fold3) led me to George C. Smith, a private-turned-corporal from MD in the 102nd USCI, who fought in FL, GA, and SC until the war's end.pic.twitter.com/65ax7KVzf5
A man who started the CW in a slave jail-and was among the first to make U.S. soldiers defend enslaved people (when his enslaver tried to reclaim him, he "resisted, and the master was hustled off alone amid the jeers of the Michigan men")-eventually helped end slavery in the U.S.
For those interested in the longer history of this facility, check out @rothmanistan's new history of Franklin & Armfield, who long used the pen as their Alexandria office.pic.twitter.com/ASi6G3e075
So true. Speaking of my own field, I am endlessly struck by how we do not - to my knowledge - know the name of a single helot (the class of enslaved agricultural laborers who made of the majority population of Sparta). How I wish I could tell even just one of their stories.
1st Michigan or 1st Minnesota? Thanks
Slavery to me is a Holocaust where everyday a ship carrying slaves to America was basically a floating Auschwitz and this went on for years
I also noticed that white Southern women referred to the as house servants instead of slaves.
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