Ragged and exhausted, a black man limped into a Union Army encampment in Baton Rouge, . It was March 1863 and a time when many Americans still refused to accept the horrific reality of slavery.The U.S. was two years into a civil war in which the North harboured considerable anti-black resentment, despite its fighting to free the slaves, while the Confederate South had been able to claim that the 'peculiar institution' — as it called slavery — it was fighting to defend was essentially humane.
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