Fighting for Citizenship: Black Northerners and the Debate over Military Service in the Civil War

Author:   Brian Taylor
Publisher:   The University of North Carolina Press
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9781469659770


Pages:   248
Publication Date:   30 September 2020
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Brian Taylor
Publisher:   The University of North Carolina Press
Imprint:   The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN:  

9781469659770


ISBN 10:   1469659778
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   30 September 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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To understand why nearly 33,000 free Black men from Northern states signed up to fight for the Union is the subject of Brian Taylor's probing and informative monograph. -Civil War Times Highly recommended. . . . this will be a major resource for those studying African Americans during the Civil War and the African American military experience generally. -Choice The fluidity of Taylor's writing and the importance of the subject matter make this book useful to a wide range of scholars seeking a fresh analysis of the African American experience during the Civil War. -Journal of Southern History


The fluidity of Taylor's writing and the importance of the subject matter make this book useful to a wide range of scholars seeking a fresh analysis of the African American experience during the Civil War. -Journal of Southern History To understand why nearly 33,000 free Black men from Northern states signed up to fight for the Union is the subject of Brian Taylor's probing and informative monograph.-Civil War Times Highly recommended. . . . this will be a major resource for those studying African Americans during the Civil War and the African American military experience generally. -Choice


"""To understand why nearly 33,000 free Black men from Northern states signed up to fight for the Union is the subject of Brian Taylor's probing and informative monograph.""--Civil War Times An important contribution to Civil War history, especially as we review and analyze the reasons Black families sacrificed to support the Union cause.""--Civil War History Highly recommended. . . . this will be a major resource for those studying African Americans during the Civil War and the African American military experience generally.""--Choice Taylor . . . has done important work for scholars of the Civil War North in complicating the picture of Black enlistment, in making space for dissenting voices within Northern Black communities, and by taking readers inside the work of Black recruitment.""--H-CivWar The fluidity of Taylor's writing and the importance of the subject matter make this book useful to a wide range of scholars seeking a fresh analysis of the African American experience during the Civil War.""--Journal of Southern History"


Highly recommended. . . . this will be a major resource for those studying African Americans during the Civil War and the African American military experience generally. -Choice


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Brian Taylor is a scholar of the Civil War era who has taught at Georgetown University and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. His public-history experience includes work for the National Park Service and National Museum of American History. His current project focuses on the Reno City neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

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