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

by Richard M. Reid

Book Overview

Before Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, he added a paragraph authorizing the army to recruit black soldiers. Nearly 200,000 men answered the call. Several thousand of them came from Canada. What compelled these men to leave the relative comfort of their homes to face death on the battlefield, loss of income, and legal sanctions for participating in a foreign war? Drawing on newspapers, autobiographies, and military and census...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0774827459
• ISBN13: 9780774827454
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.0"