1st Edition

African American Women During the Civil War

By Ella Forbes Copyright 1998
300 Pages
by Routledge

300 Pages
by Routledge

This study uses an abundance of primary sources to restore African American female participants in the Civil War to history by documenting their presence, contributions and experience.  Free and enslaved African American women took part in this process in a variety of ways, including black female charity and benevolence. These women were spies, soldiers, scouts, nurses, cooks, seamstresses,... Read more
Bibliography. Index.

Biography

Ella Forbes