A formerly enslaved Beaufort, South Carolina man who escaped, became a Union Army Sergeant in the 1st South Carolina Volunteers during the Civil War, and a trial judge in Aiken County, South Carolina during Reconstruction.
The House Divided Project provides a November 8, 2012 article, by Professor Matthew Pinsker, about Prince Rivers, a formerly enslaved man who became a…
Note: Some language may be offensive to readers; racial epithets used.Internet Archive features the memoir of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a Union Army…
Note: See 6th column, 1st paragraph. Racial epithets used and some language may be offensive to readers.Chronicling America presents February 12, 1868…
Note: See 4th column, 2nd to last paragraph. Racial epithets used and some language may be offensive to readers. Chronicling America provides a August…
Note: See 3rd column, 1st paragraph. Some language may be offensive to readers.Chronicling America features a series of articles published in the July…
