Letters of a Slave Turned Union Soldier.

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ERIC Number: EJ407732

Record Type: Journal

Publication Date: 1990

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Letters of a Slave Turned Union Soldier.

Humanities, v11 n2 p27-28 Mar-Apr 1990

Discusses the influx of Black soldiers into the Union army following the Emancipation Proclamation. Concentrates on the case of Private Spotswood Rice. Provides a short history of Rice, including copies of Rice's letters to his enslaved daughters, the daughter's slaveholders, and an angry retort from the slaveowner to the federal commander in Missouri. (RW)

Descriptors: Armed Forces, Black Culture, Black Family, Black Studies, Civil War (United States), Historiography, Military Personnel, Primary Sources, Resource Materials, Secondary Education, Slavery, United States History

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Historical Materials; Guides - Classroom - Teacher

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Audience: Teachers; Practitioners

Language: English

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