Freedom's Soldiers

The Black Military Experience in the Civil War

Leslie S Rowland author Ira Berlin author Joseph Patrick Reidy author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:13th Mar '98

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Freedom's Soldiers tells the story of the 200,000 black men who fought in the Civil War, in their own words and those of eyewitnesses.

When nearly 200,000 black men, mostly former slaves, entered the Civil War, they transformed it into a struggle for liberty and changed the course of American history. Freedom's Soldiers tells those men's story in their words and those of eyewitnesses. These letters, affidavits, and memorials reveal the variety and complexity of the African-American experience during the era of emancipation.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.

"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

ISBN: 9780521634496

Dimensions: 228mm x 152mm x 14mm

Weight: 290g

212 pages