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Freedom for Themselves: North Carolina's Black Soldiers in the Civil War Era

Freedom for Themselves: North Carolina's Black Soldiers in the Civil War Era

Paperback

Series: Civil War America

Armed ForcesBlack American StudiesCivil War Period (1850-1877)

ISBN10: 1469615061
ISBN13: 9781469615066
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: Feb 10 2014
Pages: 440
Weight: 1.49
Height: 0.98 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
More than 5,000 North Carolina slaves escaped from their white owners to serve in the Union army during the Civil War. In Freedom for Themselves Richard Reid explores the stories of black soldiers from four regiments raised in North Carolina. Constructing a multidimensional portrait of the soldiers and their families, he provides a new understanding of the spectrum of black experience during and aftger the war.

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Civil War Period (1850-1877)