{"id":556,"date":"2010-05-18T15:45:33","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T15:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/grandreview\/?p=556"},"modified":"2013-10-03T02:22:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T02:22:09","slug":"the-escaped-slave-and-the-union-soldier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/2010\/05\/18\/the-escaped-slave-and-the-union-soldier\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Escaped Slave and the Union Soldier\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/32390?size=_original\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-557\" style=\"border: 7px solid black\" title=\"1864_07_02_escaped_slave_image2\" src=\"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/files\/2010\/05\/1864_07_02_escaped_slave_image2-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"139\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/files\/2010\/05\/1864_07_02_escaped_slave_image2-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/files\/2010\/05\/1864_07_02_escaped_slave_image2-680x1024.jpg 680w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/files\/2010\/05\/1864_07_02_escaped_slave_image2-624x939.jpg 624w, https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/files\/2010\/05\/1864_07_02_escaped_slave_image2.jpg 797w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 139px) 100vw, 139px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This short editorial published in <em>Harper\u2019s Weekly<\/em> describes two pictures of the same man \u2013 one shows him as a fugitive slave from Alabama and the other as a Union soldier. While at first he was a \u201cpoor fugitive oppressed with the weariness of two hundred long miles of dusty travel,\u201d <em>Harper\u2019s Weekly<\/em> explains that he enlisted in the USCT and became a \u201csolder crowned with freedom and honor.\u201d You can read the <a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/32388?size=_original\" target=\"_blank\">full editorial here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See the images described in this editorial  in the Slideshow below \u2013<br \/>\n[nggallery id=12]<\/p>\n<p>(Courtesy of the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu\/node\/32388?size=_original\" target=\"_blank\">House Divided Project<\/a><\/em> \u2013 \u201cThe Escaped Slave and the Union Soldier,\u201d <em>Harper\u2019s Weekly<\/em>, July 2, 1864, p. 422: 1.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This short editorial published in Harper\u2019s Weekly describes two pictures of the same man \u2013 one shows him as a fugitive slave from Alabama and the other as a Union soldier. While at first he was a \u201cpoor fugitive oppressed with the weariness of two hundred long miles of dusty travel,\u201d Harper\u2019s Weekly explains that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11929,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-serving-your-country","category-us-colored-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","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=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1313,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/1313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/patriots\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}