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Johns Hopkins University Press recently published [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1421413604/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1421413604&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=YKD4ECSDBX27QB5Q Soldiering for Freedom: How the Union Army Recruited, Trained, and Deployed the U.S. Colored Troops] written by Bob Luke and John David Smith. After the Emancipation Proclamation was issued, African Americans volunteered to fight for the Union. Soldiering for Freedom seeks to explain how these men were recruited, used, treated during the Civil War.

I could see the book in a class on African American history or the Civil War. It’s a historical hors d’oeuvre, 107 pages excluding footnotes and bibliography. Students would gain an overview of race relations in mid-nineteenth century in general and during the Civil War in particular. The bibliography provides many avenues for more in-depth reading.