Many escaped slaves succumbed to an implacable new foe: smallpox. On Christmas Eve 1862, Julia Wilbur, a freedman’s aid worker in Washington, D.C., wrote to her family in upstate New York: “Small pox ambulances may be seen in every part of the city. I think it is all over & all around us. The 19th …
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