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Dan
@danstudies.bsky.social
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New acc for serious shit. IR and Public Policy undergrad, focus on East Asia and NatSec. 22, 🇺🇸, DE
Interests: East Asian politics, diplomacy, defense policy, maritime security, security studies, beer
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jamellebouie.net
from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"
Nothing made slavery’s toxicity more obvious to Union troops than its effect on the fundamental unit of society, the family. For one thing, slave sales separated families. In the Upper South, where many Union soldiers were stationed in 1861, about one in three first marriages was broken by sale, and about half of all slave children were separated from at least one parent. 129 With their own eyes, soldiers saw slavery snap bonds between parents and children. The men of the Seventh Wisconsin were awakened by gunshots one November night. The following day, soldiers “learned, and saw the cause of the alarm in the form of two negro women—a mother and a daughter.” The pair had fled to Union lines to avoid the proposed sale of the “goodlooking” daughter into the so-called fancy trade, which soldiers viewed as a form of concubinage. Outraged by the plight and moved by the vulnerability of the mother and daughter, “every private in the ranks” cursed “that system which tramples on the honor of man, and makes merchandise of the virtue of women,” according to one member of the regiment. 130 When an Iowan encountered a young child about to be sold by her own father, who was also her master, he vowed, “By G–d I’ll fight till hell freezes over and then I’ll cut the ice and fight on.” 131
August 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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sodrock.bsky.social
Here's an interesting one if you're a sicko
Megacities and Urban Warfare in the 21st Century: The City as the Cemetery of Revolutionaries and Resources
By José de Arimatéia da Cruz Ph.D./MPH, Published on 10/01/23
digitalcommons.usf.edu
June 9, 2025 at 12:23 AM