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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Roberts, Rita, author.
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African Americans -- Correspondence.
Enslaved persons -- United States -- Correspondence.
Love-letters -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans -- Family relationships -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans -- Marriage -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.
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I can't wait to call...
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I can't wait to call you my wife : African American letters of love and family in the Civil War era / by Rita Roberts.
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Roberts, Rita, author.
San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books, [2022]
Subjects
African Americans -- Correspondence.
Enslaved persons -- United States -- Correspondence.
Love-letters -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans -- Family relationships -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
African Americans -- Marriage -- History -- 19th century.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Biography.
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Social aspects.
ISBN:
9781797213729 (hardcover) :
1797213725 (hardcover)
Description:
296 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
Contents:
Antebellum -- "I can ashore you I think highly of freedom and would not exchange it for nothing" -- Civil War -- "My children I have not forgot you and be assured that I will have you if it cost me my life" -- In the aftermath of war -- "Send me some of the children's hair".
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Summary:
"A collection of letters exchanged between African Americans during the Civil War era"--
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Hawaii State Library
Language, Literature & History
973.70899 Ro
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