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EXPERIENCES IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL BY TRINITY GIDDINGS
Liverpool, England, December, 1863.
Soldier-boy was moonstruck; but I’d known that long before he began his suicidal advance on States Rights Rankin. You wade through a cold stream in britches and shoes just for a dance, you got to be borderline crazy.
I expected Rankin to pull that trigger any moment as Soldier-boy went on facing him down, taunting and insulting and ridiculing.
Did Jubal want to die?
Never seen such audacious nerve, though I guessed he must have … Boy lives through all those battles, he’s bound to leave something of his soul behind. Maybe he thought he was back at Chancellorsville or Gettysburg. Minded myself that he’d fought those battles against President Lincoln’s armies, against the cause of black fo
