Название: Freedom by the Sword: The U.S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867
Автор: William A. Dobak
Издательство: Center of Military History United States Army
Год: 2012
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 574
Размер: 11,4 МБ
Язык: Английский

The Civil War changed the United States in many ways—economic, political, and social. Of these changes, none was more important than Emancipation. Besides freeing nearly 4 million slaves, it brought agricultural wage labor to a reluctant South and gave a vote to black adult males in the former slave states.