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Peter J. Parish. on the quality of the Negro as a fighting man , and professed to see in the scheme a device for forcing Negro equality throughout Northern society . There was widespread prejudice against Negro troops in the army itself ...
Peter J. Parish. on the quality of the Negro as a fighting man , and professed to see in the scheme a device for forcing Negro equality throughout Northern society . There was widespread prejudice against Negro troops in the army itself ...
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... Negro troops . The worst incident followed the capture of Fort Pillow in Tennessee , by Forrest's troops in April 1864 , when Negro soldiers were apparently slaughtered in cold blood . 62 The greatest grievance of the Negro soldier ...
... Negro troops . The worst incident followed the capture of Fort Pillow in Tennessee , by Forrest's troops in April 1864 , when Negro soldiers were apparently slaughtered in cold blood . 62 The greatest grievance of the Negro soldier ...
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... Negro History , XLVIII ( 1963 ) , 98-114 . The surprisingly varied attitudes and responses of the abolitionists are dissected by a sympathetic critic in James M. McPherson's masterly The Struggle for Equality : abolitionists and the Negro ...
... Negro History , XLVIII ( 1963 ) , 98-114 . The surprisingly varied attitudes and responses of the abolitionists are dissected by a sympathetic critic in James M. McPherson's masterly The Struggle for Equality : abolitionists and the Negro ...
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Danger Signals | 17 |
The United States in 1860 1819 | 18 |
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