Freedom by the Sword
The U.S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867
The Civil War changed the United States in many ways—economic, political, and social. Of these changes, none was more important than Emancipation. Besides freeing nearly four million slaves, it brought agricultural wage labor to a reluctant South and gave a vote to black adult males in the former slave states. It also offered former slaves new opportunities in education, property ownership—and military service. From late 1862 to the spring of 1865, as the Civil War raged on, the federal government accepted more than 180,000 black men as soldiers, something it had never done before on such a scale.Known collectively as the United States Colore…
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- ISBN: 978-1-5107-2022-0
- EAN: 9781510720220
- Produktnummer: 22303690
- Verlag: Simon + Schuster Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 568 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 89'432 KB
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