The Negro in the Civil War
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- ISBN: 030680350X
- ISBN: 9780306803505
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Physical Description:
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xviii, 379 pages, [4] pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm. - Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Da Capo Press, [1989], ©1953.
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General Note: | Reprint, with new introd. Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown, 1953. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-360) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | So nigh is grandeur -- They also serve -- No more driver's lash -- I can't stay behind -- Rehearsal for freedom -- A high day in Zion -- The tortoise gets a move on -- Sixty-three is the jubilee -- Do you think I'll make a soldier? -- Anselmas reports to God -- Home front: group portrait in sepia -- Toll de bell -- Badges of freedom -- Jubilee--jubilanus--jubilatum! -- Where sleep our kindred dead. |
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Subject: | United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 African Americans |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | E 540 .N3 Q37 1989 | 30775305529977 | General Collection | Available | - |
Summary
The Negro in the Civil War
"The Civil War was a revolution in many ways," writes Benjamin Quarles in this renowned work. "But on one point there is common agreement: without slavery there would have been no resort to arms. Hence the slave was the key factor in the war. But the Negro's tale was not merely a passive one; he did not tarry in the wings, hands folded. He was an active member of the cast, prominent in the dramatis personae. To him freedom was a two-way street; indeed he gave prior to receiving." Quarles writes powerfully about the role of three-and-a-half million blacks in the South, who were impressed into non-combatant service--building forts and entrenchments, working in factories and mines. In the North, black Americans fought with distinction on the front lines, shedding blood for an ideal--emancipation--that was cruelly betrayed during Reconstruction. The story of black Americans in the Civil War, in which they, in more ways than one, stood in the middle, was largely untold until this book by a distinguished scholar offered the wisdom and verve to make a great episode in our history come alive.