PatYoung
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A year after New Orleans was liberated by Union forces, a pro-Confederate Southern newspaper said that Blacks in that city were "as free...as in Boston," and it did not like that at all. This excerpt from an 1863 report on race relations in New Orleans offers a Confederate critique of a revolutionized society in which the Black is no longer owned by the white. You can see why so many dispossed slave owners in the city hated the Union commander Ben Butler!
Southern Newspaper Reflects on the Change in New Orleans Race Relations Caused by Union Occupation - The Reconstruction Era
Here is an interesting article on Union occupied/liberated New Orleans from a pro-Confederate newspaper in Texas. The article takes up nearly a full page in...
thereconstructionera.com