A Mother and Son Debate Emancipation
In the wake of the battle of Antietam, Robert Gould Shaw clashed with his mother over emancipation.
I am making steady progress on my biography of Robert Gould Shaw. One of the reasons I am not moving even faster is because I am so fascinated by his military career before taking command of the 54th Massachusetts in early 1863. My hope is that this book will offer readers a much richer portrait of Shaw’s br…
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