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Smith, Sam. “Black Confederates: Truth and Legend.” American Battlefield Trust, February 23, 2022. battlefields.org/learn/articles/black-confederates-truth-and-legend.
South Carolina Convention. Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union; and the Ordinance of Secession. Charleston: Evans & Cogswell, printers to the Convention, 1860.
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