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The Civil War battle of Milliken's Bend, showing African-American soldiers holding their ground against a Confederate attack, as imagined by an artist from Harper's Weekly, published July 4, 1863.
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Creating a biography of a slave

Milliken's Bend Posted on May 11, 2014 by Milliken's BendMay 11, 2014

It occurred to me, when I wrote my recent post about Webster, a runaway slave, that with digitized texts, it has now become possible to develop a biographical sketch of an individual slave simply by performing a keyword search of more »

Posted in African Americans, Black history, Civil War, Civilians, Confederate, Primary sources, Related works, Slavery | Tagged Biography, diaries, Elizabeth Meade Ingraham, free-text searching, Mississippi, Port Gibson, women's history | 2 Replies

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