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The Negro in the Civil War

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Da Capo Press, 1953 - Social Science - 379 pages
Documents the varied and constructive roles played by Black Americans during the Civil War
  

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This work explores the roles of black Americans during the Civil War and the problems and discrimination that faced them. Read full review

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References from web pages

JSTOR: The Negro in the Civil War.
This is the first comprehensive treatment of the Negro in the Civil War. George W. Williams History of the Negro Troops in the War of the Rebellion (1888) ...
links.jstor.org/ sici?sici=0022-4642(195402)20%3A1%3C131%3ATNITCW%3E2.0.CO%3B2-G

The Negro in the Civil War, by Benjamin Quarles - Internet ...
The Negro in the Civil War - Quarles writes powerfully about the role of three-and-a-half million blacks in the South, who were impressed into non-combatant ...
www.blackcamisards.com/ bookstore/ negcivil.html

Michael S. Davis - Campfires of Freedom: The Camp Life of Black ...
Other accounts written in the 1950s and 1960s include Benjamin Quarles's The Negro in the Civil War (1953) and James M. mcpherson's The Negro's Civil War ...
muse.jhu.edu/ journals/ journal_of_military_history/ v067/ 67.3davis.html

| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 105.1 | The ...
Benjamin Quarles's The Negro in the Civil War (1953) and Dudley Taylor Cornish's The Sable Arm: Negro Troops in the Union Army, 1861–1865 (1956) are cited ...
www.historycooperative.org/ journals/ ahr/ 105.1/ br_7.html

MILLIKEN'S BEND type_document_title_here
He included an account of Milliken’s in his 1953 work called “The Negro in the Civil War.” “In the late spring of 1863,” Quarles pionted out, ...
people.coax.net/ lwf/ MILBEND.HTM

H-Net Review: Stephen A. Vincent on On Jordan's Banks ...
... From Slavery to Freedom: A History of American Negroes (New York: Knopf, 1947); Benjamin Quarles, The Negro in the Civil War (Boston: Little, Brown, ...
www.h-net.org/ reviews/ showrev.cgi?path=279181169487239

Black Dispatches: Black American Contributions to Union ...
The Negro in the Civil War. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1953; pp. 78-79. Pinkerton, Allan. The Spy of the Rebellion. Chicago: ag Nettleton, 1883; p. ...
www.cia.gov/ library/ center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/ csi-publications/ books-and-monographs/ black-dispatches/ inde...

Suggested Reading List
THE NEGRO IN THE CIVIL WAR. New York: Da Capo Press, 1953. Redkey, Edwin S. A GRAND ARMY OF BLACK MEN: Letters from African-American Soldiers in the Union ...
www.54thmass.org/ 54read.html

Civil War, in us history. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...
... of the Union (8 vol., 1947–71); B. Catton, A Stillness at Appomattox (1953) and other studies; B. Quarles, The Negro in the Civil War (1953, repr. ...
www.bartleby.com/ 65/ ci/ CivilWarUS.html

Blacks in the Civil War
The Negro in the Civil War. Little, Brown and Company: Boston, 1953. Ripley, C. Peter. Slaves and Freedmen in Civil War Louisiana. Baton Rouge, 1976. ...
www.coloradocollege.edu/ Dept/ HY/ HY243Ruiz/ Research/ civilwar.html

About the author (1953)

Benjamin Quarles (1904–1996) was a noted author, editor, and historian and the first African American to be published in what later became the Journal of American History. Africana hails him as a key figure in the emergence of African-American history as an academic discipline.

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TitleThe Negro in the Civil War
Volume 350 of A Da Capo paperback
Paperback Series
AuthorBenjamin Quarles
Editionillustrated, unabridged, reprint
PublisherDa Capo Press, 1953
ISBN030680350X, 9780306803505
Length379 pages
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History / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
  
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