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Jacob Harrison Allspaugh diary, January 1865-July 1865
1865-05-04 Page 02
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way. The men have a good deal of sport with the negroes along the route all of whom are genuine specimens of the "Ginny Nigger", of the real "old Uncle Ned" class, They are all jig dancers and afford an inexhaustable source of amusement to the men, What is to be done with the sable brethren of ours is a mystery to me, and I verify between that the freeing of them was a less job than the taking care of them will be after they are freed.
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way. The men have a good deal of sport with the negroes along the route all of whom are genuine specimens of the "Ginny Nigger", of the real "old Uncle Ned" class, They are all jig dancers and afford an inexhaustable source of amusement to the men, What is to be done with the sable brethren of ours is a mystery to me, and I verify between that the freeing of them was a less job than the taking care of them will be after they are freed.
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