Paying freedom's price
Subtitle: a history of African Americans in the Civil War
By: Paul D. Escott
Series: African American history series; African-American history series
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9781442255746
Subjects: Emancipation; African American Participation; African Americans; Slaves; History
Description: Paying Freedom's Price provides a comprehensive yet brief and readable history of the role of African Americans-both slave and free-from the decade leading up to the Civil War until its immediate aftermath.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Forcing the issue; title: Forced to serve the South, desiring freedom; title: Fighting for freedom, equality, and the Union; title: Fighting for equality; title: Facing a difficult future.