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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Abbreviations
Foreword by Charles Fuller
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Freedom’s Battlefield
1 What Is at Stake: Black Abolitionism, Politics, and Lincoln’s Election
“They differ only in the method”
“every colored man in the community is an anti-slavery speech”
2 Where We Stand
“revolutions never go backward”
“Well, I am a negro, and I was not contented”
“Is the war one for Freedom?”
3 Emigration and Colonization
“Hayti needs population”
“the free blacks of the United States are wanted in the United States”
“His removal, even if possible, will not effect a cure”
4 The Slavery of Racial Prejudice
“The position of the colored man today is a trying one”
“truth shall yet triumph over error”
“We need no compromise with traitors”
“Save us from our Friends (?)”
5 Race Riots
Hate in Detroit
The New York Draft Riot
“not the first of its kind, and it may not be the last”
6 Black Soldiers and the War, Part I: What We Can Do
“the time is not far distant”
“the hand of Providence appears to move slowly but it moves”
“This is our golden opportunity”
“You owe it to yourself and your race”
“If I die tonight I will not die a coward”
“this ungodly rebellion shall be put down”
“in 1855 master sold my mother, and in 1861 he sold me”
“I propose, sir, an army of blacks”
7 Black Soldiers and the War, Part II: The Hate We Face
“colored men have their rights that white men are bound to respect”
“Is there no justice in America?”
“For what are we to be grateful?”
Fort Pillow
From the Eighth U.S. Heavy Artillery
8 Equal Pay and Equal Rights
“the Black man laid his life at the Altar of the Nation”
“under the guns of prejudice and hate”
“we have never had our Just Rights”
“we came to fight For Liberty justice & Equality”
“because I am black, they tamper with my rights”
“I was foold in the first place”
9 The Black Sailor
The USS Kearsarge and the CSS Alabama
10 Black Women and the War
“Reminiscences of My Life in Camp”
11 Emancipation
“It is now, or never: now, if ever”
Fulfilling Their Duty
“Forever free! forever free!”
12 Conditions in Dixie
“I am about thirteen years old”
“I was in a miserable-destitute condition”
Defying the Fugitive Slave Law
“The Story of Mattie J. Jackson”
13 War’s End
Occupying the Other “Hall of Congress”
The Second Inauguration
14 Lincoln’s Death and the Future
“From one we may learn all”
“‘Abraham, the Martyr’”
“We ask for our rights, upon the principle of our loyalty”
Part II: Memory’s Battlefield
15 The Context of Black Service 313
“The Negro as a Soldier”
“Public Opinion”
16 Glory
“The Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth”
“The Fifty-Fourth at Wagner”
17 Out of the Briars
“My War Record and Sketch of the Twenty-ninth Regiment”
18 Remembering Slavery and the Civil War in Missouri 393
“The New Man. Twenty-Nine Years a Slave. Twenty-Nine Years a Free Man.”
19 Remembering Slavery and the Civil War in Tennessee
“Slavery and the War of the Rebellion. Beginning of the War.”
20 Remembering Slavery and the Civil War in Kentucky
“Life and History”
21 War, Race, and Remembering
Iola Leroy
The House of Bondage
Selected Reading List
Index
Footnotes
Ch05-St1
Ch15-Romi
Ch15-Romii
Ch15-Romiii
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