CONTENTS

Illustrations

Preface to the 1991 Edition

Preface to the First Edition

i The Election of 1860 and the Coming of War

ii The Negro's Response to the War, 1861

iii The Drive for Emancipation: The Northern Scene, 1861-65

iv Emancipation in the South, 1861-65

v Anti-Negro Mob Violence in the North, 1862-63

vi The Colonization Issue

vii The Negro's Response to the Charge of Racial Inferiority

viii Government, Philanthropy, and the Freedmen

ix Negro Missions to the Freedmen

x Negro Contributions to the Union War Effort

xi Negro Troops in the Union Army: Initiation of a Policy, 1862-63

xii Black Troops from the North

xiii Negro Soldiers Prove Themselves in Battle, 1863

xiv The Struggle for Equal Pay

xv Negro Soldiers in the Union Army, 1863-64

xvi Black Troops in the Final Year of War

xvii The Confederate Decision to Raise a Negro Army, 1864-65

xviii Civil Rights and Desegregation in the North

xix Wartime Discussions of Reconstruction and Negro Suffrage

xx Land for the Landless

xxi The Negro's Attitude Toward Lincoln, 1864-65

xxii 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

Notes

A Note on Sources

An Afterword on Bibliography