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Overlooked No More: William B. Gould, escaped slave and Civil War diarist

William B. Gould escaped enslavement in North Carolina during the Civil War, joined the Navy and wrote of his adventures in a diary. The diary was discovered by a great-grandson, who had it published. The story was written as part of The New York Times "Overlooked No More" series, obituaries of remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times. ....

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Overlooked No More: William B. Gould, Escaped Slave and Civil War Diarist

He served nearly three years in the U.S. Navy and documented almost all of it, leaving an invaluable record of Black life during the war. ....

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Escaped slave and Union sailor has park dedicated to him, a turnaround from Confederate statuary

Massachusetts town dedicates a park to William B. Gould, who escaped from slavery, fought. ....

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