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          And we hear from escaped slave and Union soldier Spotswood Rice, whose family was still in bondage (“Now my dear Children be assured that..

          Spottswood Rice

          American AME minister (1819–1907)

          Spottswood Rice (November 1819 – October 31, 1907) was a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church and a private in the Union Army during the US Civil War.

          Rice is most famous for a pair of forcefully written letters to the owner of his wife and children during the war while he was stationed in St. Louis and they were enslaved in Howard County, Missouri.

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        2. Rice, Nature and History in the Potomac Country: From Hunter-.
        3. And we hear from escaped slave and Union soldier Spotswood Rice, whose family was still in bondage (“Now my dear Children be assured that.
        4. New to Cincinnati, where her father is now coach of the university basketball team, eighth-grader Aurora (called Rory) rice paper provide an especially.
        5. Rice, Resistance, and Forced Transatlantic Communities: (Re)envisioning the African Diaspora in Low Country Georgia, Jour.

          6. The letters expressed his desire to be reunited with his family and his anger at his wife's owners. Later, he was ordained a minister in the AME church and served congregations in Missouri, New Mexico, and Colorado. In 1882, he founded the first AME church in New Mexico.

          Early life

          Spottswood Rice was born a slave in Madison County, Virginia[1] in November 1819.[2] At a very early age his owner moved with his parents to Howard County, Missouri.[1]

          In Missouri, Rice married Arry or Orry Ferguson.

          As it was a slave marriage, the