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Quarles writes powerfully about the role of three-and-a-half million blacks in the South, who were impressed into non-combatant service building forts and entrenchments, working in factories and mines. In the North, black Americans fought with distinction on the front lines, shedding blood for an ideal-emancipation-that was cruelly betrayed during Reconstruction.Quarles, Benjamin is the author of 'Negro in the Civil War' with ISBN 9780306803505 and ISBN 030680350X.
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