Donald Yacovone / Freedom's Journey African American Voices of the Civil War 1st

  

Freedom's Journey: African American Voices of the Civil War [Signed]. Title: Freedom's Journey: African American Voices of the Civil War [Signed] Publication: Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2004 Edition: 1st ed.

Quarto in color pictoprial jacket; xl, 568 pages; 23 cm; bibliography. Inscribed by Yacovone on dedication page "And I do mean you, -Donald". A Jacob Lawrence painting illustrates the jacket. Presents a collection of primary documents by African Americans describing their experiences and perspectives of the Civil War. // Contents: What is at stake: Black abolitionism, politics, and Lincoln's election.

The slavery of racial prejudice. Black soldiers and the war, pt. I: What we can do. The Black soldiers and the war, pt. II: The hate we face.

Equal pay and equal rights. Black women and the war. Lincoln's death and the future. The context of Black service. Remembering slavery and the Civil War in Missouri.

Remembering slavery and the Civil War in Tennessee. Remembering slavery and the Civil War in Kentucky.

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