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Bokomslagsbild:1 Sgt Octavius McFarland, Company D, Sixty-second US Colored Infantry. Photograph ca 1864-1866; photographer unknowhn. Collection of the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum |
Förlagstext:
A renowned collector of Civil War
photographs and a prodigious researcher, Ronald S. Coddington combines
compelling archival images with biographical stories that reveal the
human side of the war. This third volume in his series on Civil War
soldiers contains previously unpublished photographs of African American
Civil War participants—many of whom fought to secure their freedom.
During the Civil War, 200,000
African American men enlisted in the Union army or navy. Some of them
were free men and some escaped from slavery; others were released by
sympathetic owners to serve the war effort. African American Faces of the Civil War
tells the story of the Civil War through the images of men of color who
served in roles that ranged from servants and laborers to enlisted men
and junior officers.
Coddington discovers these portraits— cartes de visite,
ambrotypes, and tintypes—in museums, archives, and private collections.
He has pieced together each individual’s life and fate based upon
personal documents, military records, and pension files. These stories
tell of ordinary men who became fighters, of the prejudice they faced,
and of the challenges they endured. African American Faces of the Civil War
makes an important contribution to a comparatively understudied aspect
of the war and provides a fascinating look into lives that helped shape
America.
Boken är inbunden.
Boktitel: African American Faces of the Civil War. An Album
Författare: Ronald S. Coddington
Förord: Matthew Gallman
Bokförlag: John Hopkins University Press
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Författaren Ronald S Coddington Foto: Denny Gainer |
A 1985 graduate of the University of Georgia, Ron lives in Arlington,
Virginia, with his wife, Anne, and pugs Missy and Bella. He is currently
Assistant Managing Editor, Visuals, of
The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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