Freedom for Themselves: North Carolina's Black Soldiers in the Civil War Era ISBN: 9781469602264 Platform/Publisher: Oxford Academic / University of North Carolina Press Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Slavery and Abolition of Slavery;
More than 5,000 North Carolina slaves escaped from their white owners to serve in the Union army during the Civil War. In Freedom for Themselves Richard Reid explores the stories of black soldiers from four regiments raised in North Carolina. Constructing a multidimensional portrait of the soldiers and their families, he provides a new understanding of the spectrum of black experience during and aftger the war.