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 39m
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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.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length68 hrs 39 mins
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Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Life in Chains (Annotated)
2Slavery & Four Years of War
3VOLUME I.
4CHAPTER I Slavery: Its Political History in the United States (pt. 1)
5CHAPTER I Slavery: Its Political History in the United States (pt. 2)
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6CHAPTER I Slavery: Its Political History in the United States (pt. 3)
7CHAPTER I Slavery: Its Political History in the United States (pt. 4)
8CHAPTER VI Battle of Shiloh—Capture of Island No. 10—Halleck's Advance on Corinth, and Other Events (pt. 1)
9CHAPTER VI Battle of Shiloh—Capture of Island No. 10—Halleck's Advance on Corinth, and Other Events (pt. 2)
10VOLUME II. (pt. 1)
11VOLUME II. (pt. 2)
12VOLUME II. (pt. 3)
13VOLUME II. (pt. 4)
14VOLUME II. (pt. 5)
15The Black Phalanx
16INTRODUCTION.
17CHAPTER II.
18PART II.
19CHAPTER III.
20CHAPTER IV.
21CHAPTER V.
22CHAPTER VI.
23CHAPTER VII.
24CHAPTER VIII.
25CHAPTER X. (pt. 1)
26CHAPTER X. (pt. 2)
27CHAPTER XI. (pt. 1)
28CHAPTER XI. (pt. 2)
29CHAPTER XII.
30CHAPTER XIII.
31CHAPTER XIV.
32CHAPTER II.
33Army Life in a Black Regiment
34Chapter 1. Introductory
35Chapter 2. Camp Diary
36Chapter 3. Up the St. Mary's
37Chapter 4. Up the St. John's
38Chapter 5. Out on Picket
39Chapter 6. A Night in the Water
40Chapter 7. Up the Edisto
41Chapter 8. The Baby of the Regiment
42Chapter 9. Negro Spirituals
43Chapter 10 Life at Camp Shaw
44Chapter 11. Florida Again?
45Chapter 12. The Negro as a Soldier
46Chapter 13. Conclusion
47APPENDIX
48Appendix B The First Black Soldiers
49Appendix C General Saxton's Instructions
50Appendix D The Struggle for Pay
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