Black men and women in Andersonville, Georgia, were told that because Abraham Lincoln was dead, they were no longer free. Mary Stewart, a former slave, was working for Thomas Day in Tangipahoa, Louisiana. When Day’s son told her “he was going to kill the damned free niggers,” he wasn’t exaggerating. He then grabbed her, cut her several times with his pocket knife, and dragged her into his mother’s house. Lucky
