“To day has bin a memorable day,” Emilie Frances Davis wrote in a miniature diary on Jan. 1, 1863, the date the Emancipation Proclamation became law. “I thank God I have bin here to see it. The day ...

Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Gettysburg, June-July, 1863. | Selected Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 (Library of Congress) These are all under 140 characters and could ...

"In Notes from a Colored Girl, Karsonya Wise Whitehead examines the life and experiences of Emilie Frances Davis, a freeborn twenty-one-year-old mulatto woman, through a close reading of three pocket ...

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A Bridget Jones-style pocket diary detailing the highs and lows of a young woman in the roaring 1920s has been discovered among donations to a charity shop. The leather-bound diary, written in pencil, ...

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