19th-century american memoirists

Ulysses S. Grant

American military officer and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877. As president, Grant was an effective civil rights executive who created the Justice Department and worked with the Radical Republicans to protect African Americans during Reconstruction

Frederick Douglass

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African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman

Samuel Chamberlain

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American soldier, painter, and author who traveled throughout the American Southwest and Mexico during the mid-19th century.