1865-1869
Folder 16
GUSN-295486
This scrapbook contains harmful language and employs racist stereotypes.
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This folder contains a scrapbook of newspaper articles written by J.C. while he was the captain of the armed cruiser "Catopaxi" at the close of the Civil War. He describes his impressions of the effects of the Civil War on the inhabitants of various southern communities, including Norfolk, Virginia and Beaufort, South Carolina, as well as Mexico. One article contains his description of services at a "negro church."
clippings (information artifacts)
scrapbooks
MS037
John Codman (1898-1989) family papers
MS037.05.04
scrapbooks
African Americans
Black People
Church
Civil War
Ship
File part
Folder 16
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