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From
Auction Block to Glory: The African-American Experience
by Phillip Thomas Tucker |
| From
the auction block, where transplanted and enslaved African
Americans were bought and sold as property, to the battlefield,
where two dozen black soldiers won the congressional
medal of honor, this volume explores the multifaceted
experience of African Americans during the war. |
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2. |
From
Slavery to Freedom: A History of African-Americans by
John Hope Franklin and Alfred Moss |
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From Slavery to Freedom describes the rise of slavery,
the interaction of European and African cultures in
the New World, and the emergence of a distinct culture
and way of life among slaves and free blacks. The authors
examine the role of blacks in the nation's wars, the
rise of an articulate, restless free black community
by the end of the eighteenth century, and the growing
resistance to slavery among an expanding segment of
the black population. |
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3. |
The
Price of Freedom: Slavery and the Civil War, Vol. 1
by Martin H. Greenberg, Charles Waugh (Editor), Charles
G. Waugh (Editor), Edna Greene Medford (Editor) |
| The
Price of Freedom is a two volume anthology of forty-eight
articles addressing the political, social, and military
aspects of slavery and the Civil War. This volume, The
Demise of Slavery, addresses abolition and emancipation
and the various roles played by African Americans, men
and women, in this tragic chapter of the nation’s history. |
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4. |
Women
in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers,
1941-1965 by Vicki L. Crawford (Editor), Jacqueline
Anne Rouse (Editor), Barbara Woods (Editor) |
| The
scholarly essays in this volume indicate ``that women
had a multiplicity of roles in the civil rights movement
and that not all experienced it in the same way.'' Articles
range from surveys of black women's roles to those examining
the struggles of specific groups of women during events
such as the Montgomery bus boycott. Several papers highlight
individual achievements, e.g., Fannie Lou Hamer or Septima
P. Clark. However, the papers here represent the first
scholarly study focused on black women. This important
work belongs in all academic and large public libraries. |
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5. |
Defiant
Life: Thurgood Marshall and the Persistence of Racism
in America by Howard Ball |
| Thurgood
Marshall's extraordinary contribution to civil rights
and overcoming racism is more topical than ever, as
the national debate on race and the overturning of affirmative
action policies make headlines nationwide. Howard Ball,
author of eighteen books on the Supreme Court and the
federal judiciary, has done copious research for this
incisive biography to present an authoritative portrait
of Marshall the jurist. Using race as the defining theme,
Ball spotlights Marshall's genius in working within
the legal system to further his lifelong commitment
to racial equality. With the help of numerous, previously
unpublished sources, Ball presents a lucid account of
Marshall's illustrious career and his historic impact
on American civil rights. |
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6. |
Hope
and Glory: Essays on the Legacy of the 54th Massachusetts
Regiment Martin Henry Blatt (Editor), Donald Yacovone
(Editor), Thomas J. Brown (Editor) |
| This
volume brings together the best new scholarship on the
history of the 54th, the formation of collective memory
and identity, and the ways Americans have responded
to the story of the regiment and the Saint-Gaudens monument.
Contributors use the historical record and popular remembrance
of the 54th as a lens for examining race and community
in the United States. The essays range in time from
the mid- nineteenth century to the present and encompass
history, literature, art, music, and popular culture. |
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7. |
Slaves
No More: Three Essays on Emancipation and the Civil
War by Ira Berlin, Barbara J. Fields, Leslie S. Rowland,
Steven J. Miller, Joseph P. Reidy |
| The
three essays in this volume present an introduction
to history of the emancipation of the slaves during
the Civil War. The first essay traces the destruction
of slavery by discussing the shift from a war for the
Union to a war against slavery. The slaves are shown
to have shaped the destiny of the nation through their
determination to place their liberty on the wartime
agenda. The second essay examines the evolution of freedom
in occupied areas of the lower and upper South. The
struggle of those freed to obtain economic independence
in difficult wartime circumstances indicates conflicting
conceptions of freedom among former slaves and slaveholders,
Northern soldiers and civilians. The third essay demonstrates
how the enlistment and military service of nearly 200,000
slaves hastened the transformation of the war into a
struggle for universal liberty, and how this experience
shaped the lives of former slaves long after the war
had ended. |
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8. |
Buffalo
Soldier Regiment: History of the Twenty-Fifth United
States Infantry, 1869-1926by John H. Nankivell, Quintard
Taylor (Introduction) |
| In
a debate in the Senate on July 9, 1866, contemplating
the formation of a black infantry regiment, some senators
observed that "if it was a privilege to serve in
the Army, the colored troops had earned the privilege
by their gallantry, and that if it was a duty, they
should not be allowed to shirk it." Indeed, black
soldiers had been serving since the Revolutionary War,
but now, for the first time, they became part of the
regular army, enjoying the same privileges, performing
the same duties, and facing the same tedium and occasional
danger that were every soldier's lot, but with the added
burden of the intense racism of the time. Buffalo Soldier
Regiment offers a detailed record of the service, exploits,
travels, and traditions of one of these units, the "grand
old Twenty-fifth." |
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9. |
Lincoln's
Sanctuary: Abraham Lincoln and the Soldiers' Home by
Matthew Pinsker |
| Lincoln
lived at the Soldiers' Home for a quarter of his presidency,
and for nearly half of the critical year of 1862, but
most Americans (including many scholars) have not heard
of the place. Indeed, this is the first volume to specifically
connect this early ""summer White House""
to key wartime developments, including the Emancipation
Proclamation, the firing of McClellan, the evolution
of Lincoln's ""Father Abraham""
image, the election of 1864, and the assassination conspiracy.
Through a series of striking vignettes, the reader discovers
a more accessible Lincoln, demonstrating what one visitor
to the Soldiers' Home described as his remarkable ""elasticity
of spirits."" At his secluded cottage, the
president complained to his closest aides, recited poetry
to his friends, reconnected with his wife and family,
conducted secret meetings with his political enemies,
and narrowly avoided assassination attempts. Perhaps
most important, he forged key friendships that helped
renew his flagging spirits. The cottage became a refuge
from the pressures of the White House, a place of tranquility
where Lincoln could refresh his mind. Based on research
in rarely tapped sources, especially the letters and
memoirs of people who lived or worked at the Soldiers'
Home, Lincoln's Sanctuary offers the unexpected--a completely
fresh view of Abraham Lincoln--through the window of
a place that helped shape his presidency. |
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10. |
Slaves
In The Family by Edward Ball |
| Writer
Edward Ball opens Slaves in the Family with an anecdote:
"My father had a little joke that made light of
our legacy as a family that had once owned slaves. 'There
are five things we don't talk about in the Ball family,'
he would say. 'Religion, sex, death, money and the Negroes.'"
Ball himself seemed happy enough to avoid these touchy
issues until an invitation to a family reunion in South
Carolina piqued his interest in his family's extensive
plantation and slave-holding past. He realized that
he had a very clear idea of who his white ancestors
were--their names, who their children and children's
children were, even portraits and photographs--but he
had only a murky vision of the black people who supported
their livelihood and were such an intimate part of their
daily lives; he knew neither their names nor what happened
to them and their descendents after they were freed
following the Civil War. So he embarked on a journey
to uncover the history of the Balls and the black families
with whom their lives were inextricably intertwined,
as well as the less tangible resonance of slavery in
both sets of families. From plantation records, interviews
with descendents of both the Balls and their slaves,
and travels to Africa and the American South, Ball has
constructed a story of the riches and squalor, violence
and insurrection--the pride and shame--that make up
the history and legacy of slavery in America.
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