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Lydia Maria Child's abolitionist writing on the Civil War. Her letters in defense of John Brown's violent resistance against slavery and her Freedman's Book, a reader for ex-slaves aimed to teach literacy and foster racial pride. Walt Whitman's poetry on the human cost of the Civil War and how his personal experience led him to write to comfort the injured. The effect of photography on Whitman's poetry. Herman Melville's book of poems, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, and his sense that the war exhibited a failure of democracy.
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