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The men and women represented in this book had the extraordinary opportunity of witnessing the end of a 200-year struggle for freedom: the Civil War. Gathered here are the stirring testimonies of many African Americans including slaves who endured their last years of servitude before escaping from their masters, soldiers who fought for the freedom of their brethren and for equal rights, and reporters who covered the defeat of their oppressors. These African American voices include the great abolitionist Frederick Douglass on the meaning of the war; Martin R. Delany on his meeting with Lincoln to gain permission to raise an army of African Americans; Susie King Taylor on her life as laundress and nurse to a Union regiment in the deep South; Elizabeth Keckley, Mary Todd Lincoln’s seamstress, on Abraham Lincoln’s journey to Richmond after its fall; Elijah P. Marrs on rising from slave to Union sergeant while fighting for his freedom in Kentucky; and letters from black soldiers to black newspapers. Each testimony is presented unabridged, allowing the full flavor of these voices to be heard, and each is supplemented with introductions and notes that provide rich context.

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Donald Yacovone is the senior associate editor at the Massachusetts Historical Society and editor of the Massachusetts Historical Review. His books include a collection of essays on the 54th Massachusetts Regiment and an edition of the Civil War letters of George E. Stephens. He also helped edit the Black Abolitionist Papers. He lives in Medford, Massachusetts.
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Aside from providing the kind of authoritative insight that primary sources always afford, this collection of African American perspectives on the Civil War by people who experienced it shows yet again the breadth and depth of African American letters of the time and of the struggle against racism--not just slavery--that African Americans then waged. The South considered slavery a cornerstone of the Confederacy, and far too many in the North felt that trusting a colored man with a weapon would lead to the unthinkable equality of races. Although much has been and continues to be written about the war, and about the participation of--to use the contemporary term--colored troops, not many collections of material by those troops are readily available, and Freedom's Journey probably fills a gap in most general collections. An excellent compilation, not least because its contents directly refute any notion that the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery. Frieda Murray
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