Mosaic’s Reviews > "I Can't Wait to Call You My Wife": African American Letters of Love and Family in the Civil War Era > Status Update

So bonkers every time I remember the “reconstruction era” was like 2 secs long like era is not an accurate word to describe it at all lol. Also the letter that guy wrote to his former master where he was like I will come back if you backpay me $11,000 for the time I worked for you already and guarantee schooling for my kids also you gotta pay me the same/better than up north can u do that?? Didn’t think so 😜

the Douglass family is all up down and through this book actually