The Demise of Slavery

The first of two volumes focusing on the African-American experience during the Civil War. Twenty-six articles review the rise of abolitionism in the North, the recruitment of black troops, their performance in battle, race as a factor in combat, women and the war effort, and black troops fighting for the Confederacy.

Introduction

ix

Edna Greene Medford

Acknowledgments

xiii

Part 1: Abolitionist Sentiment and the Civil War

Frederick Douglass and the American Apocalypse

5

(18)

David W. Blight

African Americans, the British Working Class and the American Civil War

23

(20)

R. J. M. Blackett

Part 2: Recruitment and Enlistment of Black Troops

The Hard Fight Was Getting into the Fight at All

43

(14)

Jack Fincher

Abraham Lincoln and the Recruitment of Black Soldiers

57

(10)

John T. Hubbell

Massachusetts and the Recruitment of Southern Negroes, 1863--1865

67

(12)

Richard H. Abbott

Raising the African Brigade: Early Black Recruitment in Civil War North Carolina

79

(28)

Richard Reid

Terrible Dilemmas: Black Enlistment in the Union Army During the American Civil War

107

(24)

Gary Kynoch

Part 3: The Black Military Experience---Service to a People and a Nation

In the Service of the United States: Comparative Mortality Among African-American and White Troops in the Union Army

131

(14)

Andrew K. Black

``To Come Forward and Aid in Putting Down This Unholy Rebellion'': The Officers of Louisiana's Free Black Native Guard During the Civil War Era

145

(14)

Manoj K. Joshi

Joseph P. Reidy

A Brothers' Fight for Freedom

159

(12)

Harold T. Pinkett

Negro Troop Activity in Indian Territory, 1863-1865

171

(24)

Lary C. Rampp

Black Chaplains in the Union Army

195

(20)

Edwin S. Redkey

Occupying the Middle Ground: African Creeks in the First Indian Home Guard, 1862--1865

215

(18)

Gary Zellar

Part 4: The Black Military Experience---Atrocties, Injustices, and Black Response

``We Cannot Treat Negroes...As Prisoners of War'': Racial Atrocities and Reprisals in Civil War Arkansas

233

(16)

Gregory J. W. Urwin

Black Experience in the Union Army: The Other Civil War

249

(10)

Richard M. Reid

Captive Black Union Soldiers in Charleston---What to Do?

259

(16)

Howard C. Westwood

The Execution of White Officers from Black Units by Confederate Forces During the Civil War

275

(12)

James G. Hollandsworth Jr.

Betwixt Wind and Water: A Short Account of Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest's Attack on Fort Pillow

287

(12)

William R. Brooksher

The Jacksonville Mutiny

299

(12)

B. Kevin Bennett

``Remember Poison Spring''

311

(14)

Mike Fisher

Part 5: African-American Women and the War Effort

The Southern Side of ``Glory'': Mississippi African-American Women During the Civil War

325

(6)

Noralee Frankel

Presence and Precedents: The USS Red Rover During the American Civil War, 1861-1865

331

(20)

Steven Louis Roca

Sojourner Truth and President Lincoln

351

(10)

Carleton Mabee

Part 6: African Americans and Aid to the Confederacy

Free Men of Color in Gray

361

(8)

Arthur W. Bergeron Jr.

Black Southerners in Gray

369

(30)

Richard Rollins

General Patrick Cleburne's Proposal to Arm Southern Slaves

399

(14)

Barbara C. Ruby

Notes

413

(74)

For Further Reading

487

(1)

Index

488

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