Mount Vernon Bookshop DVD's, CD's and Videos Gifts & Reproductions Furniture & Home Décor Children's Corner In the Garden Christmas at Mount Vernon Gourmet Gifts New! New! New! Sale! Sale! Sale! Teaching Resources Membership Donate Home   Mount Vernon Book Shop / African American History – Slave Life The Negro in the Civil War By Benjamin Quarles. ISBN 0-306-80350-X. Softcover with 379 pages. Originally written in 1953, this volume tells the powerful story of black Americans in the Civil War, in which the "Negro's tales was not merely a passive one; he did not tarry in the wings, hands folded. He was an active member of the cast, prominent in the dramatis personae. To him freedom was a two-way street; indeed he gave prior to receiving." Item #: 34082 Price: $13.95 Qty: The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom (1750-1925) The Black Phalanx: African American Soldiers in the War of Independence, the War of 1812, and the Civil War. The Negro in Virginia

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