Freedom's Soldiers
Freedom's Soldiers
The Black Military Experience in the Civil War
Ira Berlin, University of Maryland, College Park
Joseph Patrick Reidy, University of Maryland, College Park
Leslie S. Rowland, Howard University, Washington DC
Joseph Patrick Reidy, University of Maryland, College Park
Leslie S. Rowland, Howard University, Washington DC
March 1998
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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 experience during the era of emancipation.
- A moving account of the role of African-American soldiers in the American Civil War, illustrated with rare photographs
- Includes letters written by former slaves describing their wartime experiences
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"Berlin and his associates, Joseph Reidy and Leslie Rowland,...have selected in Freedom's Soldiers some of the most powerful documents devoted to the black military experience." The Historian
Product details
March 1998Paperback
9780521634496
212 pages
228 × 152 × 14 mm
0.29kg
36 b/w illus. 1 table
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Table of Contents
- Freedom's soldiers: the Black military experience
- Freedom's soldiers: a documentary history.
