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

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.

Author: Ira Berlin, Joseph Patrick Reidy, Leslie S. Rowland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 03/13/1998
Pages: 212
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.63lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.00w x 0.53d
ISBN13: 9780521634496
ISBN10: 0521634490
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
- History | United States | 19th Century

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