Research Catalog

Title

The Negro's Civil War : how American Blacks felt and acted during the war for the Union / James M. McPherson.

Author

McPherson, James M.

Publication

New York : Vintage Books, 2003.

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Details

Description

xviii, 366 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

Drawing on speeches, books, and letters to point out the military and political contributions and the feelings of African-Americans during the Civil War.

Series Statement

Vintage Civil War library

Uniform Title

Vintage Civil War library.

Subjects

• History
• African American soldiers > History > 19th century
• African Americans > History > 1863-1877
• African Americans > History > To 1863
• United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > African Americans
• United States > History > Civil War, 1861-1865 > Participation, African American

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Originally published: New York : Ballantine Books, 1991.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-356) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The election of 1860 and the coming of war -- The Negro's response to the war, 1861 -- The drive for emancipation : the Northern scene, 1861-65 -- Emancipation in the South, 1861-65 -- Anti-Negro mob violence in the North, 1862-63 -- The colonization issue -- The Negro's response to the charge of racial inferiority -- Government, philanthropy, and the Freedmen -- Negro missions to the Freedmen -- Negro contributions to the Union war effort -- Negro troops in the Union Army : initiation of a policy, 1862-63 -- Black troops from the North -- Negro soldiers prove themselves in battle, 1863 -- The struggle for equal pay -- Negro soldiers in the Union Army, 1863-64 -- Black troops in the final year of war -- The Confederate decision to raise a Negro army, 1864-65 -- Civil rights and desegregation in the North -- Wartime discussions of Reconstruction and Negro suffrage -- Land for the landless -- The Negro's attitude toward Lincoln, 1864-65 -- The Negro faces the future -- Appendix A : Negro and White population of the United States in 1860 -- Appendix B : Negro and White population of selected American cities in 1860.

ISBN

140003390X (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2003278254

OCLC

53315714

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library