Title Paying freedom's price : a history of African Americans in the Civil War / Paul D. Escott.

Publication Info.	Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2017]
	©2017

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Description	xii, 169 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Series	The African American History Series
	African American history series (Lanham, Md.)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-158) and index.
Contents	Chronology -- Introduction -- Forcing the issue -- Forced to serve the South, desiring freedom -- Fighting for freedom, equality, and the Union -- Fighting for equality -- Facing a difficult future -- Documents.
Summary	Paying Freedom's Price provides a comprehensive yet brief and readable history of the role of African Americans-both slave and free-from the decade leading up to the Civil War until its immediate aftermath.
Subject	Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States.
	African Americans -- History -- To 1863.
	American Civil War (1861-1865) (OCoLC)fst01351658
Chronological Term	To 1877
Subject	Enslaved persons -- Emancipation. (OCoLC)fst01120540
	African Americans -- History -- 1863-1877.
	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, African American.
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Military participation -- African American. (OCoLC)fst01353696
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Subject	African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
	United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- African Americans.
Other Form:	Online version: Escott, Paul D., 1947- Paying freedom's price. Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2016 9781442255753 (DLC) 2016043089
ISBN	9781442255746 (cloth)
	1442255749 (cloth)
	9781442255753 (electronic)
Standard No.	40026642433

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