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The Negro's Civil War : how American Blacks felt and acted during the war for the Union / James M. McPherson.
- Title
- The Negro's Civil War : how American Blacks felt and acted during the war for the Union / James M. McPherson.
- Author
- McPherson, James M.
- Publication
- New York : Vintage Books, 2003.
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- Description
- xviii, 366 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Drawing on speeches, books, and letters to point out the military and political contributions and the feelings of African-Americans during the Civil War.
- Series Statement
- Vintage Civil War library
- Uniform Title
- Vintage Civil War library.
- Subject
- African Americans > History > To 1863
- African Americans > History > 1863-1877
- African American soldiers > History > 19th century
- United States > Participation, African American. > Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States > African Americans > Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States > Participation, African American > Civil War, 1861-1865
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- Originally published: New York : Ballantine Books, 1991.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-356) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The election of 1860 and the coming of war -- The Negro's response to the war, 1861 -- The drive for emancipation : the Northern scene, 1861-65 -- Emancipation in the South, 1861-65 -- Anti-Negro mob violence in the North, 1862-63 -- The colonization issue -- The Negro's response to the charge of racial inferiority -- Government, philanthropy, and the Freedmen -- Negro missions to the Freedmen -- Negro contributions to the Union war effort -- Negro troops in the Union Army : initiation of a policy, 1862-63 -- Black troops from the North -- Negro soldiers prove themselves in battle, 1863 -- The struggle for equal pay -- Negro soldiers in the Union Army, 1863-64 -- Black troops in the final year of war -- The Confederate decision to raise a Negro army, 1864-65 -- Civil rights and desegregation in the North -- Wartime discussions of Reconstruction and Negro suffrage -- Land for the landless -- The Negro's attitude toward Lincoln, 1864-65 -- The Negro faces the future -- Appendix A : Negro and White population of the United States in 1860 -- Appendix B : Negro and White population of selected American cities in 1860.
- ISBN
- 140003390X (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2003278254
- OCLC
- 53315714
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library