African Americans and the Early War Effort - Hari Jones
Historian and curator of the African American Civil War Museum Hari Jones discusses the ways in which blacks aided the Union war effort prior to the Emancipation Proclamation and the establishment of the United States Colored Troops.
Related Resources
- Emancipation Proclamation Home
- "For a Vast Future Also:" Lincoln and the Millennium
- "Thenceforward and Forever Free:" The Emancipation Proclamation and Its Effect on the War
- The National Archives Emancipation Proclamation
- Our Documents, View the Actual Document (NARA)
- Exhibit on the Emancipation Proclamation (LOC)
- Lincoln at 200: Emancipation Proclamation
Recommended Books
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, by Doris Kearns Goodwin
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