Before the Mayflower; a History of Black AmericaTraces black history from its origins in the great empires of western Africa, the transatlantic journey to slavery, through Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, and the civil rights upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s. |
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Page 167
... Ben Butler , an odd character who seemed to be everywhere in this war . Ben Butler was a Massachusetts poli- tician who wangled a general's commission and went down to Vir- ginia to fight . He got there at a good time . The Union was in ...
... Ben Butler , an odd character who seemed to be everywhere in this war . Ben Butler was a Massachusetts poli- tician who wangled a general's commission and went down to Vir- ginia to fight . He got there at a good time . The Union was in ...
Page 169
... Ben Butler was thinking . He needed men , and black men were all around him . Why not use them ? Butler turned the problem over in his fertile mind . There was a prejudice against the use of Negro troops . This prejudice , however , was ...
... Ben Butler was thinking . He needed men , and black men were all around him . Why not use them ? Butler turned the problem over in his fertile mind . There was a prejudice against the use of Negro troops . This prejudice , however , was ...
Page 398
... Ben Butler's Army of the James moved on Lee's forces . Negro division in Grant's Army did not play a prominent role in Wilderness Campaign , but Ben Butler gave his black infantrymen and his 1,800 black cavalrymen highly visible as ...
... Ben Butler's Army of the James moved on Lee's forces . Negro division in Grant's Army did not play a prominent role in Wilderness Campaign , but Ben Butler gave his black infantrymen and his 1,800 black cavalrymen highly visible as ...
Contents
THE AFRICAN PAST | 3 |
BEFORE THE MAYFLOWER | 29 |
THE NEGRO IN THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION | 48 |
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