African Canadians in Union Blue: Volunteering for the Cause in the Civil War by Richard Reid

African Canadians in Union Blue: Volunteering for the Cause in the Civil War

American Abolitionism and Antislavery

Richard Reid

308 pages • missing pub info (view editions)

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When Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, he also authorized the U.S. Army to recruit black soldiers for the war effort. Nearly 200,000 men answered the call, and several thousand of them came from Canada. What compelled t...

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