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Little, Brown and Company, Published 1953. Hardcover, xvi, 379 pp.; 21 cm; book club edition (no edition statement on copyright page, no price on front flap).
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In Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Blue cloth-covered boards, red lettering within a decorative frame on spine; mild shelf and edge wear with some color loss to corner tips and head and foot of spine, mild soiling to covers. Binding tight. Pages mildly toned, otherwise unmarked. Blue and cream illustrated dust jacket (crossed rifle and saber with Union cap; design by Barbara Corrigan) with a 3/4-inch chip and tear at head of front joint, a few smaller nicks and tears, one small tear at foot of spine repaired with clear tape, and light creasing along edges; mild to moderate overall shelf wear with some color loss along edges and spine, mild soiling and spotting. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Study of the part Black Americans played in winning their own freedom during the Civil War, as soldiers and sailors, scouts and spies, nurses, teachers, abolitionists and workers on the home front, North and South. Includes the Massachusetts Fifty-fourth at Fort Wagner, the "contrabands" who entered Union lines, the 180,000 Black soldiers and 29,000 sailors who served the Union, and the response to emancipation. Written while Benjamin Quarles (1904-1996) was dean at Dillard University in New Orleans, from manuscript collections at the Library of Congress, the Moorland Foundation at Howard University and the National Archives. Quarles, later at Morgan State University for two decades, is regarded as a pioneer of African American history; his other books include Frederick Douglass (1948), Lincoln and the Negro (1962) and Black Abolitionists (1969). Contents: Foreword; So Nigh Is Grandeur; They Also Serve; No More Driver's Lash; I Can't Stay Behind; Rehearsal for Freedom; A High Day in Zion; The Tortoise Gets a Move On; Sixty-three Is the Jubilee; Do You Think I'll Make a Soldier?; Anselmas Reports to God; Home Front: Group Portrait in Sepia; Toll de Bell; Badges of Freedom; Jubilee, Jubilanus, Jubilatum!; Where Sleep Our Kindred Dead; Bibliography; Index.