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| Source: National Archives |
Mary, the daughter mentioned in the letter, was interviewed as part of the Federal Writers' Project in 1937.
Read a transcript of the correspondence at Letters of Note
Tuesday, September 03, 2013
Letter From Former Slave Spotswood Rice to Kittey Diggs
Toward the end of the American Civil War in 1864, soldier and former slave, Spotswood Rice, wrote a furious letter to his former owner, Katherine Diggs. He warned her that he was returning to Missouri, together with a thousand-strong army of black soldiers, to rescue his still-enslaved children.
Mary, the daughter mentioned in the letter, was interviewed as part of the Federal Writers' Project in 1937.
Read a transcript of the correspondence at Letters of Note
Mary, the daughter mentioned in the letter, was interviewed as part of the Federal Writers' Project in 1937.
Read a transcript of the correspondence at Letters of Note
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