Slavery’s Hazards- Civil War Times August 2014

Three small scraps of cloth on display at the New-York Historical Society’s Civil War textile exhibit, “Homefront & Battlefield: Quilts & Context in the Civil War,” (P. 52), illustrate the complexity of American slavery and race relations just before the war. The fabric is a blend of cotton and wool, sometimes called “Jeans” or “Negro …

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