Black Soldiers - Black Sailors - Black Ink
Author: Thomas Truxtun Moebs
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 1752
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Author: Thomas Truxtun Moebs
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 1752
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas Truxton Moebs
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 1654
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Glenn A. Knoblock
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2003-08-20
Total Pages: 372
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKContaining the military service records of more than 200 black soldiers with ties to New Hampshire during the American Revolution, this volume helps provide a better understanding of what it meant to be a black man in New Hampshire during this critical phase of American history. Knoblock (an author and lecturer from Dover, N.H.) covers campaigns and engagements, and details the known information about each soldier's career. The study's appendices include black soldiers who died in the war, black soldiers before the revolution, breakdown by regiment, and black place names and locales in New Hampshire. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author: Martha Putney
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1987-05-14
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 0313367523
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book to document thoroughly the lifestyle and collective experience of the many thousands of black sailors during this time period. Numerous illustrations in the form of original charts, tables, crew lists, and customs records support the text. In a penetrating study, the author unveils the enormous contribution made prior to the Civil War to the nation's economy, prestige, and power by black Americans.
Author: Major Don A. Mills Sr. USMC
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2014-08-15
Total Pages: 58
ISBN-13: 1782897585
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince the very beginning of American history, African Americans have served alongside their white counterparts in virtually every major armed conflict on the high seas. This was especially true during the Civil War. The Union Navy continued to experience a shortage of available manpower to sufficiently man its fleet of 600 plus ships. Life aboard naval vessels was particularly harsh and naval recruiters did not hesitate to enlist African Americans, free and slave, to ensure sufficient manning. African American sailors saw their service as an opportunity to rise above the status of social discrimination and segregation. Because of the shortage of able-bodied seamen in the Union Navy, African Americans were encouraged to join the naval service at a time when the Army and Marine Corps excluded their service. In an effort to attract African American recruits and to have them reenlist when their terms expired, the Navy tended to treat African American sailors with some degree of equality and respect once at sea. African American sailors were messed and quartered alongside their white counterparts. Per the leadership of the ship’s captain, segregation and discrimination were regulated or was less prevalent than in 19th century America. The accomplishments of the Union Navy had a significant impact on its winning the war. The Union Navy could not have achieved its mission without nearly one-fifth of its total manpower, the African American sailor. Their numbers provided the credible force required to execute the strategic aims of the Anaconda Plan and helped to ensure a Union victory. The service of African American sailors allowed the North to end the war much sooner than it would have without their service, thus preventing an even greater number of loss to human life.
Author: Catherine Clinton
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9780395677223
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChronicles the military accomplishments of African Americans who fought for the independence and preservation of the United States while struggling to be treated as equals and recognized for their valor and achievement.
Author: W. Jeffrey. Bolster
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 0674028473
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew Americans, black or white, recognize the degree to which early African American history is a maritime history. W. Jeffrey Bolster shatters the myth that black seafaring in the age of sail was limited to the Middle Passage. Seafaring was one of the most significant occupations among both enslaved and free black men between 1740 and 1865. Tens of thousands of black seamen sailed on lofty clippers and modest coasters. They sailed in whalers, warships, and privateers. Some were slaves, forced to work at sea, but by 1800 most were free men, seeking liberty and economic opportunity aboard ship.Bolster brings an intimate understanding of the sea to this extraordinary chapter in the formation of black America. Because of their unusual mobility, sailors were the eyes and ears to worlds beyond the limited horizon of black communities ashore. Sometimes helping to smuggle slaves to freedom, they were more often a unique conduit for news and information of concern to blacks.But for all its opportunities, life at sea was difficult. Blacks actively contributed to the Atlantic maritime culture shared by all seamen, but were often outsiders within it. Capturing that tension, Black Jacks examines not only how common experiences drew black and white sailors together--even as deeply internalized prejudices drove them apart--but also how the meaning of race aboard ship changed with time. Bolster traces the story to the end of the Civil War, when emancipated blacks began to be systematically excluded from maritime work. Rescuing African American seamen from obscurity, this stirring account reveals the critical role sailors played in helping forge new identities for black people in America.An epic tale of the rise and fall of black seafaring, Black Jacks is African Americans' freedom story presented from a fresh perspective.
Author: W. Jeffrey Bolster
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1998-09-15
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 0674076273
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the roles of African-Americans, both free men and slaves, in maritime history during the years 1740 to 1865. Also discusses their relationships with white sailors.
Author: Michael Lee Lanning
Publisher: Birch Lane Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 328
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn account of the road to racial equality in the military, with chronological chapters on conflicts from the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and the Spanish-American War through the world wars, the Korean War, Vietnam, and Desert Storm. Includes bandw photos. For general readers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Tobbie H. Ingram
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2007-12-01
Total Pages: 95
ISBN-13: 0970195214
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe American Education system lacks a lot of information concerning African-American history. This leaves Whites and Blacks with the idea that Blacks have only been slaves in this country which leads to disillusionment in African Americans and misperceptions by other races. Mr. Ingram has taken the time to collect facts, that have rarely or never been heard, about the Black soldier and in doing so he offsets any belief that Blacks have never been dedicated to this country.