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1. Letter from Emma Pringle Alston to Charles Alston, June 28, 1862

Letter from Emma Pringle Alston to Charles Alston, June 28, 1862
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1862-06-28
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A handwritten, five-page letter from Emma Alston to her husband, Charles, in which she expresses her fear that enslaved people will escape immediately if Charles leaves their plantation. She also remarks on the gender imbalance present in Greenville during the war years.

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