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Author: Deborah Hopkinson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2007-01-09
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 0689839669
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A boy who hates being a slave joins the Union Army to fight for freedom, and proves himself brave and capable of handling a mule team when the need arises.
Author: Deborah Hopkinson
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9781428722590
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A boy who hates being a slave joins the Union Army to fight for freedom, and proves himself brave and capable of handling a mule team when the need arises.
Author: Joanne Randolph
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2018-07-15
Total Pages: 34
ISBN-13: 1538340909
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The period of time including the Civil War and Reconstruction in the United States was an era that involved a lot of change. For many African Americans, this transition included going from a life of slavery to becoming a soldier. This engaging and informative book presents readers with the stories of many of these people, while also addressing important issues such as racism and prejudice. Detailed text paired with eye-catching photographs helps support key social studies curriculum and hold the attention of readers.
Author: Kirk Savage
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2018-07-31
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0691184526
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The United States began as a slave society, holding millions of Africans and their descendants in bondage, and remained so until a civil war took the lives of a half million soldiers, some once slaves themselves. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves explores how the history of slavery and its violent end was told in public spaces—specifically in the sculptural monuments that came to dominate streets, parks, and town squares in nineteenth-century America. Looking at monuments built and unbuilt, Kirk Savage shows how the greatest era of monument building in American history took place amid struggles over race, gender, and collective memory. Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves probes a host of fascinating questions and remains the only sustained investigation of post-Civil War monument building as a process of national and racial definition. Featuring a new preface by the author that reflects on recent events surrounding the meaning of these monuments, and new photography and illustrations throughout, this new and expanded edition reveals how monuments exposed the myth of a "united" people, and have only become more controversial with the passage of time.
Author: Robert Geake
Publisher:
Published: 2023-11-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781594164156
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Known as the "Black" Regiment, the Story of the First Continental Army Unit Composed of African American and Native American Enlisted Men In December 1777, the Continental army was encamped at Valley Forge and faced weeks of cold and hunger, as well as the prospect of many troops leaving as their terms expired in the coming months. If the winter were especially cruel, large numbers of soldiers would face death or contemplate desertion. Plans were made to enlist more men, but as the states struggled to fill quotas for enlistment, Rhode Island general James Mitchell Varnum proposed the historic plan that a regiment of slaves might be recruited from his own state, the smallest in the union, but holding the largest population of slaves in New England. The commander-in-chief's approval of the plan would set in motion the forming of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment. The "black regiment," as it came to be known, was composed of indentured servants, Narragansett Indians, and former slaves. This was not without controversy. While some in the Rhode Island Assembly and in other states railed that enlisting slaves would give the enemy the impression that not enough white men could be raised to fight the British, owners of large estates gladly offered their slaves and servants, both black and white, in lieu of a son or family member enlisting. The regiment fought with distinction at the battle of Rhode Island, and once joined with the 2nd Rhode Island before the siege of Yorktown in 1781, it became the first integrated battalion in the nation's history. In From Slaves to Soldiers: The 1st Rhode Island Regiment in the American Revolution, historian Robert A. Geake tells the important story of the "black regiment" from the causes that led to its formation, its acts of heroism and misfortune, as well as the legacy left by those men who enlisted to earn their freedom.
Author: Roger Cohen
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2006-04-11
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0385722311
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In February of 1945, 350 American POWs, selected because they were Jews, thought to resemble Jews or simply by malicious caprice, were transported by cattle car to Berga, a concentration camp in eastern Germany. Here, the soldiers were worked to death, starved and brutalized; more than twenty percent died from this horrific treatment. This is one of the last untold stories of World War II, and Roger Cohen re-creates it in all its blistering detail. Ground down by the crumbling Nazi war machine, the men prayed for salvation from the Allied troops, yet even after their liberation, their story was nearly forgotten. There was no aggressive prosecution of the commandants of the camp and the POWs received no particular recognition for their sacrifices. Cohen tells their story at last, in a stirring tale of bravery and depredation that is essential for any reader of World War II history.
Author: Alice M. Hinkle
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 102
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →True story of a slave named Prince Estabrook who fought for his freedom (and ours) on the first day of the American Revolution.
Author: Ronald M. Lamothe
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1847010423
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Anglo-Egyptian re-conquest of Sudan - Churchill's 'River War' - has been well chronicled from the British point of view, but we still know little about its front line troops, the Sudanese soldiers of the Egyptian Army. Making use of unpublished primary sources and published material located in the United Kingdom and Sudan, Slaves of Fortune provides an historiographic correction. It argues that nineteenth-century Sudanese slave soldiers were social beings and historical actors, shaping both European and African destinies, just as their own lives were being transformed by imperial forces. -- Jacket.
Author: Phillip Thomas Tucker
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780811703406
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents a biography of Cathy Williams, African American and only woman ever to disguise herself as a man, join, serve in the Buffalo Soldiers, and succeed against all odds.
Author: Chandra Manning
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2007-04-03
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 0307267431
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Using letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers to take us inside the minds of Civil War soldiers—black and white, Northern and Southern—as they fought and marched across a divided country, this unprecedented account is “an essential contribution to our understanding of slavery and the Civil War" (The Philadelphia Inquirer). In this unprecedented account, Chandra Manning With stunning poise and narrative verve, Manning explores how the Union and Confederate soldiers came to identify slavery as the central issue of the war and what that meant for a tumultuous nation. This is a brilliant and eye-opening debut and an invaluable addition to our understanding of the Civil War as it has never been rendered before.
