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Diary of a Contraband The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor
by Gould, William Benjamin
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- ISBN-13: 9780804747080
- ISBN: 0804747083
- Publisher: Stanford University Press
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"[Diary of a Contraband provides] modern readers with vivid insight into the life and thought of a man who overcame the degradations of slavery, actively sought his own freedom and fought to make it permanent, and in the end forged a new life as a full citizen . . . .An unusual work, [it is] one of only three wartime diaries kept by black sailors."Library Journal "Diary of a Contraband offers a fascinating picture of everyday life for sailors and cilivians in the 1860s. It also provides tantalizing details of antebellum Willington that have seldom made their way into written history."Willmington Star-NewsGould, William Benjamin is the author of 'Diary of a Contraband The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor' with ISBN 9780804747080 and ISBN 0804747083.
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