"Unraveling Ulysses S. Grant’s Complex Relationship..." Topic
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Tango01  | 29 Jul 2024 5:13 p.m. PST |
… With Slavery
"In late January 1864, an enslaved woman named Jule liberated herself in Louisville, Kentucky, while en route to St. Louis. She had been traveling with her mistress, Julia Dent Grant, the wife of Union Major General Ulysses S. Grant. "At Louisville," Julia recalled in her memoirs, "my nurse (a girl raised at my home) left me, as I suppose she feared losing her freedom if she returned to Missouri. I regretted this, as she was a favorite with me."
It was bitterly cold in Louisville on the day Jule left Julia. The Ohio River had blocks of ice in it. Even at this late date in the Civil War, slavery remained legal in Kentucky, so she may have crossed the river into the free state of Indiana. How the petite, "ginger-colored" Jule, as another woman enslaved by Julia's family later described her, found work and housing after freeing herself from slavery is unknown. But Julia reported that Jule—also called Julia or Black Julia—got married soon after her escape…" Smithsonian Magazine link Armand |
| Shagnasty | 30 Jul 2024 1:00 p.m. PST |
Interesting for the info and the NewSpeak terminology used in the article. |
| Tango01 | 30 Jul 2024 3:56 p.m. PST |
Glad you like it my good friend…
Armand
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