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Fighting for Citizenship: Black Northerners and the debate over military service in the Civil War by Brian Taylor, 2020.
Like Men of War: Black troops in the Civil War, 1862-1865 by Noah Andre Trudeau, 1998.
I Freed Myself: African American self-emancipation in the Civil War era by David Williams, 2014.
Black Resettlement and the American Civil War by Sebastian N. Page, 2021.
What Shall We Do with the Negro? by Paul D. Escott, 2009.
A Black Woman's Civil War Memoirs: reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33rd U.S. Colored Troops, late 1st South Carolina Volunteers by Susie King Taylor, 1989.
Paying Freedom's Price: a history of African Americans in the Civil War by Paul D. Escott, 2017.
The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway & the slaves' Civil Warby David S. Cecelski, 2012.
Notes from a Colored Girl: the Civil War pocket diaries of Emilie Frances Davis by Karsonya Wise Whitehead, 2014.
A Massacre in Memphis: the race riot that shook the nation one year after the Civil War by Stephen V. Ash, 2013.
A Nation Within a Nation: organizing African-American communities before the Civil War by John Ernst, 2011.
Troubled Refuge: struggling for freedom in the Civil War by Chandra Manning, 2017.
The Black Experience in the Civil War South by Steven V. Ash, 2010.
Black Antietam: African Americans and the Civil War in Sharpsburg by Emilie Amt, 2022.
The Civil War: Forever Free, episode 3 of the Ken Burns Series. PBS.
Slavery and the Making of America, Pt. 1: The Downward Sprial. PBS.
Slavery and the Making of America, Pt. 2: Liberty in the Air. PBS.
Civil Warriors: The Story of 2 black families who fought in the Civil War
The Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln, January 1, 1863.
Hidden Voices: Enslaved Women in the Lowcountry and U.S. South. Lowcountry Digital History Initiative
The African American Civil War Museum.
In Their Own Words: Diaries and Letters by African American Soldiers. National Museum of African American History & Culture.
The Making of African American Identity: Emancipation. National Humanities Center.
Civil War Images: Depictions of African Americans in the War Effort. Library of Congress.