Describes the role African-Americans played before and during the Civil War, the influence of the Underground Railroad, the effect of the abolition movement, and the enlistment of African-Americans into the Union Army.
Documents the recruitment, training, and struggles of African American soldiers during the Civil War and examines the campaigns in which they participated.
An account of the African-American soldiers, sailors, spies, scouts, guides, and wagoners who participated and sacrificed in the struggle for American independence.
Examines the firsthand accounts of African-Americans, as well as other period sources, to present overviews of African-American daily life and culture during the last decades of slavery and during Reconstruction, including a special section on the Civil War.
Tells the story of James Forten, a free African-American boy from Philadelphia who was taken prisoner aboard a British warship and later on a British prison ship until the end of the war.
Describes the loosely organized networks of people, both free and slave, who helped fugitives from the South escape slavery to freedom in the North or in Canada.
the surprising story of runaway slaves who sided with the British during the American Revolution
Blair, Margaret Whitman
2010
Recounts the experiences of the slaves who answered Lord Dunmore's 1775 promise that any slave who left his master and fought for the British would have their freedom.
