{"id":1400,"date":"2010-05-19T14:51:06","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T19:51:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/?p=1400"},"modified":"2010-06-16T10:45:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T15:45:58","slug":"usct-liberating-slaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/2010\/05\/19\/usct-liberating-slaves\/","title":{"rendered":"USCT Liberating Slaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/upload_images\/usct_liberate1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1401\" style=\"border: 5px solid black\" title=\"usct_liberate1detail\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/05\/usct_liberate1detail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/05\/usct_liberate1detail.jpg 340w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/files\/2010\/05\/usct_liberate1detail-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a> As United States Colored Troops (USCT) regiments entered southern states, they had the opportunity on numerous occasions to liberate slaves. After one USCT regiment liberated slaves from a plantation in North Carolina, an editorial published in <em>Harpers Weekly<\/em> on January 23, 1864 noted that they \u201c[left] \u2018Ole Massa\u2019 to glory in solitude and secession.\u201d You can read the <a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/upload_images\/liberating_slaves_article.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">full article<\/a> here as well as view the accompanying <a href=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/upload_images\/usct_liberate1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">illustration<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As United States Colored Troops (USCT) regiments entered southern states, they had the opportunity on numerous occasions to liberate slaves. After one USCT regiment liberated slaves from a plantation in North Carolina, an editorial published in Harpers Weekly on January 23, 1864 noted that they \u201c[left] \u2018Ole Massa\u2019 to glory in solitude and secession.\u201d You [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,171,156],"tags":[161],"class_list":["post-1400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-1861-1865","category-historic-periodicals","category-images","tag-battles-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1400"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2006,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1400\/revisions\/2006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/blogdivided\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}