Freedom: Series II: The Black Military Experience: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 (Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation) - Hardcover

Berlin, Ira

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521229847 ISBN 13: 9780521229845

Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr, 1983

Synopsis

A collection of first-hand accounts drawn from the extensive records of the National Archives. It explains how black military service helped to destroy slavery; it is a social history of black soldiers; it explains how soldiering shaped the life of black people during and after the war.

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Book Description:

Union occupation of parts of the Confederacy during the Civil War forced federal officials to confront questions about the social order that would replace slavery. This volume of Freedom, first published in 1991, presents a documentary history of the emergence of free-labor relations in the large plantation areas of the Union-occupied Lower South.

Review:

A collection of first-hand accounts drawn from the extensive records of the National Archives. It explains how black military service helped to destroy slavery; it is a social history of black soldiers; it explains how soldiering shaped the life of black people during and after the war. -- Book Description

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0521229847
• ISBN 13: 9780521229845
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 896