Diary of a contraband : the Civil War passage of a Black sailor
"In September 1862, William Benjamin Gould escaped from slavery by rowing to the U.S.S. Cambridge, a Union gunboat patrolling off the coast of Wilmington, North Carolina. He served in the United States Navy for the remainder of the Civil War and left a diary of his experiences - one of only three known diaries of African American sailors from the period. It is distinguished not only by its details and eloquent tone, but also by its author's reflections on the conduct of the war, on his own military engagements, on race, on race relations in the Navy, and on what African Americans might expect after the War and during Reconstruction."
Print Book, English, 2002
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif., 2002
Genealogy
xxiii, 373 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780804746403, 9780804747080, 0804746400, 0804747083
50006546
An introduction to William B. Gould : in the service of "Uncle Samuel"
William B. Gould's worlds : Wilmington, Dedham, and the intervening war
The democratic impulse and the navy : two influences shaping William B. Gould's wartime experiences
William B. Gould's other writings