Statistics for occurrence #1 of “South Carolina” in chapter 2 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Army Life in a Black Regiment:
... is a doubtful advantage.
I notice that some companies, too, look darker than others, though all are purer African than I expected.
This is said to be partly a geographical difference between the South Carolina and Florida men. When the Rebels evacuated this region they probably took with them the house-servants, including most of the mixed blood, so that the residuum seems very black.
But the men brought...
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† | South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) | 21,990 | 46 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes |
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