Yesterday I asked you to imagine Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia marching north into Pennsylvania on this 159th anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg.1 The point of the post was to try to begin to refocus how we understand the racial profile of Lee’s army and the presence of thousands of enslaved men throughout th…
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