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Dr. John R. Legg
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Scholar of Indigenous & Digital Public History 📖 PhD, George Mason. Researching Indigenous mobility + diplomacy in the Civil War era. Book Review Editor H-CivWar. In Progress: _Degrees of Liberation_ editing w/ Lauren Lassabe Shepherd. web: johnlegg.org
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Oh that’s cool! Well thanks for the follow. I’m working on an essay about Emiquon/Dickson Mounds and NAGPRA laws.
November 19, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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He’s been so very helpful. Are you from the community?
November 19, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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He’s been one of my contacts!
November 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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I have met a few, including leadership and museum personnel at Dickson Mounds in Illinois. I’d welcome talking and meeting with others!
November 19, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Feb. 6, 1939.
September 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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from chandra manning's wonderful book "what this cruel war was over"
Nothing made slavery’s toxicity more obvious to Union troops than its effect on the fundamental unit of society, the family. For one thing, slave sales separated families. In the Upper South, where many Union soldiers were stationed in 1861, about one in three first marriages was broken by sale, and about half of all slave children were separated from at least one parent. 129 With their own eyes, soldiers saw slavery snap bonds between parents and children. The men of the Seventh Wisconsin were awakened by gunshots one November night. The following day, soldiers “learned, and saw the cause of the alarm in the form of two negro women—a mother and a daughter.” The pair had fled to Union lines to avoid the proposed sale of the “goodlooking” daughter into the so-called fancy trade, which soldiers viewed as a form of concubinage. Outraged by the plight and moved by the vulnerability of the mother and daughter, “every private in the ranks” cursed “that system which tramples on the honor of man, and makes merchandise of the virtue of women,” according to one member of the regiment. 130 When an Iowan encountered a young child about to be sold by her own father, who was also her master, he vowed, “By G–d I’ll fight till hell freezes over and then I’ll cut the ice and fight on.” 131
August 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Unbelievable.
August 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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I've never had an issue with a MacBook.
August 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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...and that doesn't happen that quickly. Still trying to figure that out (I think comps really ruined reading for me).
August 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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You’ll love Biloxi! We’ve already been a few times since moving to Hattiesburg.
August 8, 2025 at 1:03 PM