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Article: The Christian Recorder, broken families, and educated nations in Julia C. Collins's Civil War novel The Curse of Caste.(The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride)(Critical essay)
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- African American Review
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- December 22, 2006
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"We know that there are many well-educated, strong and powerful minds among us, that have need only to be discovered ...."--The Christian Recorder (1852)
"Family metaphors abound in Civil War literature."--Catherine Clinton
In April, 1864, at the height of the Civil War, Julia C. Collins's first contribution to the important Black weekly, The Christian Recorder, appeared in its pages. During the next 16 months, reports of the Fifty-Fourth Massachusetts Regiment's triumphant march into Charleston, South Carolina, of Congress's vote to establish the Freedmen's Bureau, and of Abraham Lincoln's reelection and then assassination, were laid out in columns ...