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An examination of the history of slavery in the United States, covering the slave trade, the life of a slave, the Underground Railroad, the Civil War, and other topics.

Looks at the life of Susie King Taylor, a runaway slave, who founded a school and taught both children and adults how to read and write, and who was the first African-American Civil War nurse to write her own story.

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. Rather than focusing on black military service, the white-led abolitionist movement, or Lincoln?s emergence as the great emancipator, Escott concentrates on the black military and civilian experience in the North as well as the South.

The story of James Armistead Lafayette, an American slave and spy whose information helped end the American Revolutionary War. After the war, he fought the Virginia General Assembly to gain his freedom.

Presents a history of African-Americans in and around the town of Gettysburg before, during, and after the Civil War as soldiers and non-combatants; describes the invasion of the Confederate Army in July 1863, and the slave hunt in which free Pennsylvania blacks were abducted, the contributions of blacks in the fighting in Pennsylvania, the aftermath of the battle, and a listing of black veterans attending the 75th Anniversary reunion.

" ... Ranging from the stories of individuals to those of armies on the move to debates in the halls of Congress, 'Troubled Refuge' probes the particular and deeply significant reality of the contraband camps: what they were really like and how former slaves and Union soldiers warily united there, forging a dramatically new but highly imperfect alliance between the government and African Americans"--Amazon.com.

Discusses the Civil War from the perspective of the slaves.

Volume two of a two-volume anthology that contains forty-eight articles which address the political, social, and military aspects of slavery and the Civil War.

Truman K. Gibson Jr. recounts his involvement in the struggle for racial justice, describing his efforts to end segregation in the armed forces and gain equal rights for African-Americans.