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		<title>Missionaries of Freedom, Part 2</title>
		<link>http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2013/05/19/missionaries-of-freedom-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 12:59:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald R. Shaffer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Source: Harper&#8217;s Weekly &#8211; May 9, 1863, http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1863/may/runaway-slaves.htm An earlier edition of Civil War Emancipation dealt with the phenomenon of slaves that had escaped to federal lines journeying back into rebel held territory to let family and friends know that they would &#8230; <a href="http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2013/05/19/missionaries-of-freedom-part-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cwemancipation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19345560&#038;post=4291&#038;subd=cwemancipation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Confederate Retaliatory Act</title>
		<link>http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/the-confederate-retaliatory-act/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 16:41:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald R. Shaffer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late last year, this blog discussed Jefferson Davis&#8217; proclamation in late 1862 denying black Union soldiers the traditional protections of prisoners of war should they ever fall into Confederate hands. Instead, Davis indicated they and their white officers would be &#8230; <a href="http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/the-confederate-retaliatory-act/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cwemancipation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19345560&#038;post=4259&#038;subd=cwemancipation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Harvard Conference Paper</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 01:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald R. Shaffer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I participated in the &#8220;Freedom Rising&#8221; symposium at Harvard University. It featured a terrific group of scholars and scholarship related to the emancipation of slaves of African descent in the United States and elsewhere, and I was honored to &#8230; <a href="http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/harvard-conference-paper/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cwemancipation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19345560&#038;post=4263&#038;subd=cwemancipation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When the Union Army Arrived on a Plantation</title>
		<link>http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/when-the-union-army-arrived-on-a-plantation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 21:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald R. Shaffer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Lincoln&#8217;s finalization of the Emancipation Proclamation, Union forces in effect became an army of liberation. Where federal soldiers went in the Confederate South after New Year&#8217;s Day of 1863, freedom for the slaves generally followed. Civil War Emancipation previously has covered &#8230; <a href="http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/when-the-union-army-arrived-on-a-plantation/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cwemancipation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19345560&#038;post=4242&#038;subd=cwemancipation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What I Have Been Up to Lately</title>
		<link>http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2013/04/06/what-i-have-been-up-to-lately/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Apr 2013 11:24:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald R. Shaffer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My apologies for the lack of posts of late. I have been busy lately with various thing professional and personal, which have tended to pull me away from the labor of love, which is Civil War Emancipation. Last weekend, for example, &#8230; <a href="http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2013/04/06/what-i-have-been-up-to-lately/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cwemancipation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19345560&#038;post=4230&#038;subd=cwemancipation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Men of Color, To Arms!</title>
		<link>http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/men-of-color-to-arms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Mar 2013 14:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald R. Shaffer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By early Spring 1863, the recruitment of black soldiers into the Union Army was finally getting underway in earnest. Although it would not be difficult for most black men of military age at that moment to appreciate the importance of &#8230; <a href="http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2013/03/23/men-of-color-to-arms/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cwemancipation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19345560&#038;post=4191&#038;subd=cwemancipation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not Dead Yet</title>
		<link>http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/not-dead-yet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald R. Shaffer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The February 21 edition of Civil War Emancipation discussed evidence of slavery as an institution coming apart in early 1863. Also included was a cowardly but wise qualifier, &#8220;While slavery was far from dead . . .&#8221; This edition of the blog &#8230; <a href="http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/not-dead-yet/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cwemancipation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19345560&#038;post=4161&#038;subd=cwemancipation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where the Slaves Were Located</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 22:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald R. Shaffer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the end of February 1863, Harper&#8217;s Weekly, no doubt drawing on 1860 Census data, dramatically illustrated the geographic distribution of slaves on the eve of the Civil War, with a map in which the higher the concentration of slaves the &#8230; <a href="http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2013/03/03/where-the-slaves-were-located/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cwemancipation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19345560&#038;post=4149&#038;subd=cwemancipation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Worthy Fundraising Effort! Please Give!</title>
		<link>http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/worthy-fundraising-effort-please-give/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald R. Shaffer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Readers, The African American Military History Museum in Hattiesburg, Mississippi was badly damaged by a tornado earlier this month. My good friend, Tom Ward, of Spring Hill College, has launched a fundraising drive to help pay for repairs to &#8230; <a href="http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/worthy-fundraising-effort-please-give/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cwemancipation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19345560&#038;post=4147&#038;subd=cwemancipation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Signs of the Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Donald R. Shaffer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harper&#8217;s Weekly, 21 February 1862. Source: http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1863/february/freed-negroes.htm While slavery was far from dead in the United States in early 1863, the signs increasingly were not good for its long-term survival. The first piece of evidence was an illustration (above) and accompanying &#8230; <a href="http://cwemancipation.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/signs-of-the-times/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cwemancipation.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19345560&#038;post=4125&#038;subd=cwemancipation&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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