Enslavement to
freedom

 
African American woman in circa 1850 clothing composes a letter at a desk.

 

 

Graphic rendering of the text 2010 Letters.

Notes, observations, historical hints, tidbits and stories from the community.

Study Areas:

Enslavement

Anti-Slavery

Free Persons of Color

Underground Railroad

The Violent Decade

US Colored Troops

Civil War

Old Mail:

Archived Letters Page 1

Archived Letters Page 2


Archived Letters from 2003


Archived Letters from 2004

Archived Letters from 2005

Archived Letters from 2006

Archived Letters from 2007

Archived Letters from 2009

 

2005 Mail

5th Massachusetts Calobe Jackson, Jr., January 17, 2005
The Hygienic School  John Weldon Scott, February 11, 2005
Re: The Hygienic School  George F. Nagle, February 12, 2005
Steelton Proms  Kaye Allen, February 26, 2005
"Colored Man is No Slacker"  Calobe Jackson, Jr., March 11, 2005
Free Blacks in Lancaster & Chester  Anita Wills, June 4, 2005
Monumental A.M.E. Church  Calobe Jackson, Jr., June 10, 2005
6th Regiment USCT  Sgt. Algernon Ward, June 16, 2005
Sgt. Nimrod Adams, 10th Cavalry  Calobe Jackson, Jr., July 5, 2005
Jane Mars Chester  Calobe Jackson, Jr., August 5, 2005
Jane Mars Chester--Reply  Barbara B. Barksdale, August 9, 2005
Colored Man is No Slacker--Reply  Emile Wilson, August 19, 2005
Using Ancestry.com to Track Runaways  Eileen Scully, Sept. 7, 2005
Peter Sullivan Blackwell  Calobe Jackson, Jr., September 23, 2005
Black Chambersburg  John Weldon Scott, November 7, 2005
August Wilson  Calobe Jackson, Jr., November 11, 2005
Dr. Charles Hoyt Crampton  Calobe Jackson, Jr., November 15, 2005


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