Freedom by the Sword The U. S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867

Name: Freedom by the Sword The U. S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867
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ISBN: 9781616088392

ISBN-10: 1616088397

ISBN-13: 9781616088392

Edition: 2012

Authors: William A. Dobak

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The Civil War changed the United States in manyways—economic, political, and social. Of these changes, none was more importantthan Emancipation. Besides freeing nearly four million slaves, it broughtagricultural wage labor to a reluctant South and gave a vote to black adultmales in the former slave states. It also offered former slaves newopportunities in education, property ownership—and military service. From late1862 to the spring of 1865, as the Civil War raged on, the federal governmentaccepted more than 180,000 black men as soldiers, something it had never donebefore on such a scale.Known collectively as the United States Colored Troops andorganized in segregated regiments led by…

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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 568
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.672
Language: English

William A. Dobak received his PhD in American Studies from theUniversity of Kansas in 1995, and is now an authority on the history of blacksoldiers in the nineteenth century. An award-winning historian and author, hehas worked at the National Archives and the U.S. Center of Military History.