1865 FREED SLAVES' FIRST CHRISTMAS. Rare Emancipation Proclamation & Meaning of the "N" Word. Spurgeon Barton Commander

Barton Commander

Daniel Sharp [1783-1853]

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Divining by the Scriptures in the Middle Ages by Robert Jamieson

1865 FREED SLAVES' FIRST CHRISTMAS. Rare Emancipation Proclamation & Meaning of the "N" Word. Spurgeon Barton CommanderA very scarce novelized version of what appears to be grounded in history, with the main white character being Abijah Green. The account was published immediately after the end of the Civil War and gives a first hand account of the newly freed slaves' first Christmas in the north. The novel notably contains an extensive section in which the main black protagonist attempts to explain to her daughter how the word n***er is not a synonym for other words