Jumat, 07 Juli 2017

Emancipation jolts a slave and her mistress

The ink was barely dry on the Emancipation Proclamation when two Union soldiers rode into the yard of Virginia slaveholder Sigismunda Kimball and demanded the release of the slave woman Farinda. Kimball lived on a farm in the Shenandoah Valley near Berryville, about eight miles from Winchester. Her husband was in Stonewall Jackson’s Corps in …

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