Freedom's Soldiers: The Black Military Experience in the Civil War

by Leslie S. Rowland, Joseph Patrick Reidy, Ira Berlin

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When nearly 200,000 black men, most of them former slaves, entered the Union army and navy, they transformed the Civil War into a struggle for liberty and changed the course of American history. Freedom's Soldiers tells the story of those men in their own words and the words of other eyewitnesses. These moving letters, affidavits, and memorials - drawn from the records of the National Archives - reveal the variety and complexity of the African-American...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0521634490

ISBN13:9780521634496

Release Date:March 1998

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:212 Pages

Weight:0.65 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Related Subjects

19th Century African-American Studies Civil War Ethnic Studies History Military Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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