Fire of Freedom Abraham Galloway and the Slaves' Civil War

Name: Fire of Freedom Abraham Galloway and the Slaves' Civil War
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ISBN: 9780807835661

ISBN-10: 0807835668

ISBN-13: 9780807835661

Edition: 2012

Authors: David S. Cecelski

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Abraham H. Galloway (1837-70) was a fiery young slave rebel, radical abolitionist, and Union spy who rose out of bondage to become one of the most significant and stirring black leaders in the South during the Civil War. Throughout his brief, mercurial life, Galloway fought against slavery and injustice. He risked his life behind enemy lines, recruited black soldiers for the North, and fought racism in the Union army's ranks. He also stood at the forefront of an African American political movement that flourished in the Union-occupied parts of North Carolina, even leading a historic delegation of black southerners to the White House to meet with President Lincoln and to demand the full…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 9/29/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English

Historian David S. Cecelski is author of The Waterman's Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina and co-editor (with Timothy B. Tyson) of Democracy Betrayed: The Wilmington Race Riot of 1898 and Its Legacy.



Foreword


Prologue: New Bern, North Carolina, May 1863



At River's Edge



The Secret Feelings of Their Hearts



A Second John Brown



Spies All Their Lives



They Will Fight to the Death



My Harte Over Run with Joy



The Death of a Hero



The Meeting with Lincoln



Their Path to Freedom



God's Free Man



Soldiers of the Cross



In This Land We Will Remain



Loud Calls for Galloway


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index