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Dennis J Yancey

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This is a rather typical slave narrative

 

. . . a former slave that went into the Civil War conflict along side his "young master"

as a "body servant". This was quite typical of those who were classified as "Black Confederates"

 

here again - the narrative very much points out the complex relationship that existed between black and white - - all so often misunderstood by those of us today who take such a simplistic view of the topic and of an era we never lived in.

 

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