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The Black Civil War Soldier: A Visual History of Conflict and Citizenship

by Deborah Willis

A stunning collection of stoic portraits and intimate ephemera from the lives of Black Civil War soldiers Though both the Union and Confederate armies excluded African American men from their initial calls to arms, many of the men who eventually served were black. Simultaneously, photography culture blossomed―marking the Civil War as the first conflict to be

Publisher

NYU Press

Publication date

Jan 26, 2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

256

ISBN

9781479809004