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- Collection:
- Julia King Collection
- Title:
- Letter from freedwoman Nancy at Savannah to "Dear Mistress," 1866
- Date of Original:
- 1866-04-05
- Subject:
- Freed persons--Georgia
African Americans--History--1863-1877 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
- Medium:
- correspondence
personal correspondence
family papers - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- Letter dated April 5, 1866, from Nancy at Savannah to "Dear Mistress." Thanks her for the things she sent "because I stood in need of them." Says that "Savannah is a bad place now." She would like to come visit but it is such a long way because "I am afraid of the water." Says to tell Miss Anna and Miss [name] not to marry Yankees but Georgians instead like Misses Eliza &Katherine did. "Dear Mistress I feel mighty bad about you because Master says that he will never let you come to Savannah any more" but hopes she will come because Misses Eliza &Katherine are there. "Dear Mistress I could not begin to tell you how the Yankees done me when they came to town they ruined me all together they even took the blankets off the bed I have nothing still and have no way to make any money but I hope I will be in your kitchen yet."
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/midm_jkic_241-28
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/midm_jkic_241-28#item
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/midm_jkic_241-28/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 2 pages
- Holding Institution:
- Midway Museum (Midway, Ga.)
- Rights: