History of The Negro Race In America 1619 To 1800

George Washington Williams was an American Civil War veteran, minister, politician, lawyer, journalist, and groundbreaking historian of Af...

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Evil In Africa: Encounters With The Everyday

William C. Olsen, Walter E. A. van Beek, and the contributors to this volume seek to understand how Africans have confronted evil around t...

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The Civil War's African-American Soldiers Through Primary Sources

The Civil War began as a struggle to reunite a divided nation, and it became a fight to end slavery. For African-American soldiers, the c...

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The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During theCivil War

Early in the Civil War, Louisiana's Confederate government sanctioned a militia unit of black troops, the Louisiana Native Guards. In...

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The African Texans

Immigrants of African descent came to Texas first as free blacks seeking opportunity under the Spanish and Mexican governments, then as en...

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Civil War (African-American History)

Analyzes the impact of the Civil War on African Americans, discussing the division between free states and slave states, the Emancipation ...

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The Underground Railroad and the Civil War (Untold History of the Civil War)

-- Each title details a specific topic of life during the war-- Many titles discuss subjects not covered in Civil War books-- Complements ...

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African Americans in the Civil War : Untold History of the Civil War

Black soldiers' combat experiences fighting in the Union and Confederate Armies were at times vastly different from those of their whi...

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African American Women During the Civil War

This study uses an abundance of primary sources to restore African American female participants in the Civil War to history by documenting...

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The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction

Originally published in 1964, The Struggle for Equality presents an incisive and vivid look at the abolitionist movement and the legal bas...

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Black Prophetic Fire by Cornel West

An unflinching look at nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies. In an accessible, convers...

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The Birth of a Nation: How a Legendary Filmmaker and a Crusading Editor Reignited America's Civil War

In a scene at the end of the Civil War, James Trotter, a sergeant in an all-black union regiment, marched into Charleston, South Carolina ...

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Black Troops, White Commanders and Freedmen during the Civil War

In the ten probing essays collected in this volume, Howard C. Westwood recounts the often bitter experiences of black men who were admi...

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Black Internationalist Feminism: Women Writers of the Black Left, 1945-1995

Black Internationalist Feminism examines how African American women writers affiliated themselves with the post-World War II Black Communi...

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Slavery and the Commerce Power: How the Struggle Against the Interstate Slave Trade Led to the Civil War

Despite the United States’ ban on slave importation in 1808, profitable interstate slave trading continued. The nineteenth century’s great...

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On the Altar of Freedom: A Black Soldier's Civil War Letters from the Front

The letters featured in this book were sent by Corporal James Henry Gooding, a member of Company C., of the 54th Massachusetts regiment. T...

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Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War, 2nd Edition

This book combines a sweeping narrative of the Civil War with a bold new look at the war’s significance for American society. Professor Hu...

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Voices of Emancipation: Understanding Slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction through the U.S. Pension Bureau Files

Voices of Emancipation seeks to recover the lives and words of former slaves in vivid detail, mining the case files of the U.S. Pension ...

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Washington during Civil War and Reconstruction: Race and Radicalism

In this provocative study Robert Harrison provides new insight into grass-roots Reconstruction after the Civil War and into the lives of t...

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Bluejackets and Contrabands: African Americans and the Union Navy

One of the lesser known stories of the Civil War is the role played by escaped slaves in the Union blockade along the Atlantic coast. From...

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