FREEDOM'S JOURNEY by Donald Yacovone (Editor), Charles Fuller (Foreword) ( 9781556525216 )

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Title:

FREEDOM'S JOURNEY
AFRICAN AMERICAN VOICES OF THE CIVIL WAR

By:

Donald Yacovone (Editor), Charles Fuller (Foreword)

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Paperback

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1556525214

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9781556525216

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CHICAGO REVIEW PRESS

Pub. date:

1 February, 2004

Pages:

570

Synopsis:

Some were slaves who endured their last years of servitude before escaping from their masters; some were soldiers who fought for the freedom of their brethren and for equal rights; some were reporters who covered the defeat of their oppressors. Here, for the first time, are collected the testimonies of African Americans who witnessed the Civil War. They 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 a 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; letters from black soldiers to black newspapers; and much more.

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