Record #:

19029

Author(s):

Bell-Kite, Diana

Abstract:

Scholars of nineteen century African American history face the challenges of finding first-person accounts; they therefore rely on peripheral sources such as the correspondences of Private Henry A. Clapp who was stationed in New Bern from 1862-1863. Clapp provides detailed accounts of Sylvia and Mary Jane Conner, two New Bern African American women that changed Clapp's perceptions on slavery.

Source:

The Palace (NoCar F 264 N5 P3), Vol. 7 Issue 2, Winter 2007, p4, bibl, f

Subject(s):

North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives