What is you gwing to fite' for?

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Creator / Contributor: J.E.M.
Title: What is you gwing to fite' for?
Collection Title: Patriotic envelope collection. Series I: Civil War envelopes, 1861-1865.
Publisher: New-York Historical Society
Description: Pictorial Envelope: 1 envelope; 3 x 5 1/2 in. African-American woman doing laundry with African-American man, standing beside her while smoking a pipe. White envelope with black ink. Image on left. Printed below image: 'Dinah. 'What is you bwing to fite' / for?' / Pompey. 'Dat's what dis chile can't / find out, Massa says he don't know.'
Institution: New-York Historical Society
Identifier: aj01057.jpg
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Subject: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans
Slavery--United States
Material type or medium of original: Pictorial envelopes
Patriotic envelopes
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