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Many freed slaves—like these above in a contraband camp at a Virginia plantation—would suffer from terrible diseases, prominent among them, small pox. (Library of Congress)
Library of Congress
Many freed slaves—like these above in a contraband camp at a Virginia plantation—would suffer from terrible diseases, prominent among them, small pox. (Library of Congress)
Library of Congress