Fighting for Freedom: Memoirs of Black Soldiers in the Civil War
Testimonies of Black Union Soldiers, Emancipation, and the Struggle for CitizenshipBy Joseph Warren Keifer, Joseph T. Wilson, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Frank A. Rollin, Joshua M. Addeman, Susie King Taylor
Length68h 36m
About this audiobook
Fighting for Freedom: Memoirs of Black Soldiers in the Civil War gathers testimony, military narrative, recollection, and advocacy to illuminate Black participation in the conflict that transformed the United States. Moving between battlefield experience, regimental life, emancipationist politics, and the intimate costs of war, the volume offers both firsthand immediacy and historically situated reflection. Accounts of service, discipline, courage, and contested citizenship reveal that the struggle for Union was inseparable from the struggle for freedom. Its contributors represent a meaningful range of wartime witnesses: Black veterans and observers alongside officers, reformers, and chroniclers connected to Black regiments. Susie King Taylor's perspective on nursing and military life broadens the anthology beyond conventional combat memoir, while narratives associated with command and recruitment place individual service within the larger campaign to enlist, arm, and recognize African American soldiers. Together, these voices belong to the literary and political tradition of Civil War testimony, abolitionism, Reconstruction-era memory, and the long contest over whose experiences would define national history. This volume is especially valuable for readers seeking a multifaceted introduction to Black military history and Civil War literature. Its juxtaposed perspectives invite careful comparison of voice, authority, race, leadership, and remembrance. Students, scholars, and general readers will find in these memoirs an instructive dialogue about sacrifice, liberation, and citizenship—one that makes the war's moral stakes newly vivid.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length68 hrs 36 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Life in Chains (Annotated)
26CHAPTER XI. (pt. 2)
2Slavery & Four Years of War
27CHAPTER XII.
3VOLUME I. (pt. 1)
28CHAPTER XIII.
4VOLUME I. (pt. 2)
29CHAPTER XIV.
5VOLUME I. (pt. 3)
30CHAPTER II.
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6VOLUME I. (pt. 4)
31Army Life in a Black Regiment
7VOLUME I. (pt. 5)
32Chapter 1. Introductory
8VOLUME II. (pt. 1)
33Chapter 2. Camp Diary
9VOLUME II. (pt. 2)
34Chapter 3. Up the St. Mary's
10VOLUME II. (pt. 3)
35Chapter 4. Up the St. John's
11VOLUME II. (pt. 4)
36Chapter 5. Out on Picket
12VOLUME II. (pt. 5)
37Chapter 6. A Night in the Water
13The Black Phalanx
38Chapter 7. Up the Edisto
14INTRODUCTION.
39Chapter 8. The Baby of the Regiment
15CHAPTER II.
40Chapter 9. Negro Spirituals
16PART II.
41Chapter 10 Life at Camp Shaw
17CHAPTER III.
42Chapter 11. Florida Again?
18CHAPTER IV.
43Chapter 12. The Negro as a Soldier
19CHAPTER V.
44Chapter 13. Conclusion
20CHAPTER VI.
45APPENDIX
21CHAPTER VII.
46Appendix B The First Black Soldiers
22CHAPTER VIII.
47Appendix C General Saxton's Instructions
23CHAPTER X. (pt. 1)
48Appendix D The Struggle for Pay
24CHAPTER X. (pt. 2)
49Appendix E Farewell Address of Lt. Col. Trowbridge
25CHAPTER XI. (pt. 1)
50Life and public services of Martin R. Delany
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