I have just come across a Ted Alexander’s 2001 North and South article entitled “A Regular Slave Hunt.” This article highlights a sad and little known aspect of Lee’s Gettysburg campaign. Alexander wrote that in June and July 1863 Confederate forces rounded up hundreds of free blacks and escaped slaves throughout southern Pennsylvania.
Alexander has provided [...]
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Lee’s Slave Hunters.
Posted in Civil War, Gettysburg, Race in America, Slavery, The South on April 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
