Tag: This Cruel War

  • Plainly speaking, a “yaller girl” was a mulatto, a person of mixed-race conceived through some combination of black and white parentage.1 The four examples used above don’t go into too much detail. It was, for the time, a very understood phrase.

  • Voices of Slavery: ‘They Were Saving Me For a Breeding Woman’ This Cruel War: An Evidence-Based Exploration of the Civil War, its Causes and Repercussions 2016-08-25 Virginian Luxuries, artist unknown. c1825. During 1929 and 1930, an Africa-American scholar named Ophelia Settle Egypt, conducted nearly 100 interviews with former slaves. Working then at Fisk University, she…