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African Canadians in Union Blue: Volunteering for the Cause in the Civil War
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African Canadians in Union Blue: Volunteering for the Cause in the Civil War Hardcover - 2014

by Richard M. Reid


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  • Title African Canadians in Union Blue: Volunteering for the Cause in the Civil War
  • Author Richard M. Reid
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 308
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of British Columbia Press
  • Date 2014
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780774827454 / 0774827459
  • Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
  • Dimensions 9 x 6.2 x 1 in (22.86 x 15.75 x 2.54 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Canada - History - 1841-1867, Blacks - Canada - History - 19th century
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013456724
  • Dewey Decimal Code 973.708

About the author

Richard Reid is professor emeritus at the University of Guelph and the author of several books in Canadian and American history, including Freedom for Themselves: North Carolina's Black Soldiers in the Civil War Era.

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UBC Press. Very Good. 2014. Hardcover. 0774827459 . Pictorial hardcovers in Fine condition with a solid binding and a bright, unmarked interior. Black & white illustrations and photographs through the book. "Before Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, he made a last-minute change -- a paragraph authorising the army to recruit black soldiers. Over the next two years, approximately 180,000 soldiers and 18,000 sailors joined the cause. Several thousand came from Canada, the terminus of the Underground Railroad. What compelled these young men to leave the comfort and safety of home to face death on the battlefield, loss of income for their families, and legal sanctions for participating in a foreign war? Drawing on newspapers, autobiographies, and military and census records, Richard Reid pieces together a portrait of a group of men who served the Union in disparate ways - as soldiers, sailors, or doctors - but who all believed that the principles of liberty,… Read More
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