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Book Review


Freedom for Themselves: North Carolina's Black Soldiers in the Civil War Era. By Richard M. Reid. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008. xx, 420 pp. $40.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3174-8.)
Richard M. Reid's Freedom for Themselves is an excellent social history of North Carolina's African American regiments in the Civil War. Reid digs deeply into the relevant historical documentation and brilliantly places black soldiers' service in its local, state, and national contexts. He explains what in each of the North Carolina regiment's service was typical of the black military experience in North Carolina and what was distinctive. . . .
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