"Smoked Yankees" and the struggle for empire
Subtitle: letters from negro soldiers, 1898-1902
By: [compiled by] Willard B. Gatewood, Jr.
Contributors: Gatewood, Willard B.
Series: The University of Arkansas Press reprint series ;; [vol. 4]
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Fayetteville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
Subjects: Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Participation, African American -- Sources; Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Personal narratives, American.; African American soldiers -- Correspondence.; United States -- Armed Forces -- African Americans -- History -- Sources.; United States -- Armed Forces -- History -- Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Sources.
Genres: Sources; Personal narratives, American.; Correspondence.; Sources.
Description: "Called upon for the first time to render military service outside the States, Negro soldiers (called Smoked Yankees by the Spaniards) were eager to improve their status at home by fighting for the white man in the Spanish-American War. Their story is told through countless letters sent to black U.S. newspapers that lacked resources to field their own reporters. The collection constitutes a remarkably complete and otherwise undisclosed account of the black man's role in -- and attitude toward -- America's struggle for empire."--From the rear cover.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 317-319.
Reprint. Originally published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1971.
Includes index.