An award-winning historian's sweeping new interpretation of the African American experience. In...
So central was labor in the lives of African-American slaves that it has often been taken for gra...
Freedom's Soldiers tells the story of the 200,000 black men who fought in the Civil War, in their...
Slaves worked. When, where, and especially how, they worked determined the course of their lives ...
Union occupation of parts of the Confederacy during the Civil War forced federal officials to con...
Drawn from the documentary history of emancipation that has been described as 'this generation's ...
As slavery collapsed during the American Civil War, former slaves struggled to secure their liber...
When nearly 200,000 black men, most of them former slaves, entered the Union army and navy, they ...