num_pages: 404
description: Quarles writes powerfully about the role of three-and-a-half million blacks in the South, who were impressed into non-combatant service building forts and entrenchments, working in factories and mines. In the North, black Americans fought with distinction on the front lines, shedding blood for an ideal-emancipation-that was cruelly betrayed during Reconstruction.
language: English
title: The Negro in the Civil War
titlecomplete: The Negro in the Civil War
genres: History, African American, American History, American Civil War, Civil War
ratings_count: 25
publisher: Da Capo Press