Post Civil-War
The American West was mostly inhabited after the Civil War by freed slaves who sought to escape their past while simultaneously looking for a brighter future in a region where the ingrained and inflexible prejudices of the East held less influence over their lives.
Post Civil War
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The photograph of Laura Belle Devlin, who used a hacksaw to kill and mutilate her 75-year-old husband, dumping part of his pieces in the wood stove and the rest in their backyard. Ohio’s Newark in 1947.
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