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Miche N
@skirmiche.bsky.social
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Writer/fighter 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Texfugee relocated to the northeast. Heathen, animist, pro-choice, pro-bodily autonomy, pro-BLM, anti-racist, anti-fascist, you get the gist (they/he)
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“I’ll fight until hell freezes over and then I’ll cut the ice and fight on”
post by @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."
November 17, 2025 at 7:55 PM
skirmiche.bsky.social
I can only imagine, especially with the “downtime” arc immediately after?! One of the times I’m glad I’m not caught up bc I woulda been STRESSED 😂 (thought I sent this reply many days ago and apparently forgot to hit the button oops)
November 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
skirmiche.bsky.social
Will this be posted anywhere else? I haven’t seen much reporting about it a all and would like to share it with people who aren’t on Bluesky
November 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM
skirmiche.bsky.social
(I did cheat and look ahead to figure out whether or not the [redacted] does actually [redacted] because boy howdy if it was going to turn into that kind of story I needed to be prepared to listen to it, especially with *waves hand at news* but even so the episode really got me)
November 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM