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In reflecting on both a pivotal moment in her life during the Civil War and the longer-term effects of such an event, Mrs. Albright excludes her family from the violent system of slavery while adhering to stereotypically Southern values. The necessity of interracial intimacy is noticeable in Mrs. Albright’s descriptions.

The Declaration of Independence proclaimed the thirteen colonies' separation from Great Britain and set the nation's civic standard that "all Men are created equal."

Letter written between representatives of the Freedmen’s Bureau in the years immediately following the Civil War. The letter talks about a demonstration of the Ku Klux Klan.

In this poem, a mother tells her children the story of an enslaved mother and her beautiful daughter who is sold away.