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Contextually Speaking: Black Soldiers in the Post-Emancipation South

Posted on February 19, 2016 · Leave a comment

by Susan O’Donovan The racial violence that swept Memphis in early May 1866 was no accident.  Indeed, very little happens in a vacuum: not wars, not revolutions, not even the sinking of the Titanic.  Histories, it turns out, have their own histories, and one of the historian’s tasks is to figure out why things happened.  […]

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