| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Slaves, Sailors, Citizens: African Americans in the Union Navy. By Steven J. Ramold. (De-Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2002. x, 253 pp. $32.00, ISBN 0-87580-286-9.)

Once ignored, black Union soldiers in the Civil War now enjoy a voluminous literature. The same cannot be said for African Americans in the Union navy. There was no book-length scholarly history of black Union sailors until the belated publication of David Valuska's revised dissertation in 1993. A big deterrent to such scholarship was the difficulty of documenting their experience. Unlike black soldiers who served in segregated units, the Union navy out of necessity and tradition integrated African Americans with white sailors on its ships. Indeed, what made Valuska's scholarship so groundbreaking was his brave effort to identify African Americans in the Union navy's mostly color-blind enlistment records. Recently, Joseph P. Reidy of Howard University has led an even more thorough and successful project with that same goal. . . .

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