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Title: Autograph Letter Signed - "Negros are not the same" in post-Civil War South Carolina Author: Maryck, Edward Place: Charleston, S.C. Publisher: Date: November 15, 1866 Description: 4 pp. + stamped address leaf. To his brother, Alexander Maryck, London [Ontario], Canada West. The writer was no diehard Rebel. He lamented the death of a teenager who had joined the Confederate Army at war’s end, only to die of “exposure”, when “we was already whip[p]ed but our ignorant and drunken generals did not know it…”. He also notes the resurrection of the Charleston Mercury newspaper, which printed the famed “Union Dissolved!” broadside of 1861. “I wonder what the Politicks are to be now – in former days they did all they could to get us out of the Union, now I suppose they will do all they can to keep us out by their imprudent writings…” Still, Maryck, whose family (also known as Mazyck) had been large slave-holders, was typically racist: His relations, preparing to reestablish their plantation fields, “all think the negros will do better [as laborers] as there is no provost court to go to or Soldiers about the country, no negro Soldiers now all mustered out. We are not in Town now insulted with the sight of the creatures…Country is not like Country now, the negros are not the same thing, they don’t care for us and we don’t care for them, as it used to be each one feels independent of the other…” Lot Amendments Condition: Near fine. Item number: 244385