Richard Wrightâs Civil War Cipher

Grandpa âdarkly boasted of having killed âmoân mah fair share of them damn rebelsâ while en route to enlist in the Union Army,â Richard Wright recalled. Â âGrannyâs conversationsâ¦[about]Grandpaâs life,â gave the novelist further details of the difficulties his maternal ancestor Richard Wilson endured during the Civil War. âMilitantly resentful of slavery,â Wright penned in 1923, […]

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Grandpa âdarkly boasted of having killed âmoân mah fair share of them damn rebelsâ while en route to enlist in the Union Army,â Richard Wright recalled. Â âGrannyâs conversationsâ¦[about]Grandpaâs life,â gave the novelist further details of the difficulties his maternal ancestor Richard Wilson endured during the Civil War. âMilitantly resentful of slavery,â Wright penned in 1923, […]

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