They had for months protected the freedmen of this entire region from the hostility of their old masters; and but for their presence, the extensive mission schools carried on at another part of the estates inclosed by the bend, must have been abandoned.
Reid highlights the protective role of soldiers for freedmen in the post-war South.
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You see, General, this is alarming, and you must acknowledge that we are not safe.
We must, then, be prepared with a policy for maintaining it ourselves.
Spain failed to maintain her title to the security she had pledged, but the lenders knew the instability of that security when they risked their money on it.
I would rather give up my crop to the negroes than the lives of my wife and children.