{"id":331,"date":"2010-04-02T12:44:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T16:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/?p=331"},"modified":"2010-04-02T12:44:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T16:44:16","slug":"usct-liberating-slaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/2010\/04\/02\/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-332\" style=\"border: 5px solid black\" title=\"usct_liberate1detail\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/files\/2010\/04\/usct_liberate1detail.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"306\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/files\/2010\/04\/usct_liberate1detail.jpg 340w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/files\/2010\/04\/usct_liberate1detail-300x239.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a> As 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 in <em>Harpers Weekly<\/em> 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<p>(Courtesy of <i>House Divided Project<\/i> \u2013 \u201cNegro Soldiers Liberating Slaves,\u201d <i>Harper\u2019s Weekly<\/i>, January 23, 1864, p. 54: 1.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As 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 in Harpers Weekly noted that they \u201c[left] \u2018Ole Massa\u2019 to glory in solitude and secession.\u201d You can read the full article here as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-colored-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}