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Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor
William Benjamin Gould
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| #1879621 in Books | Stanford University Press | 2002-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x.90 x6.13l,1.23 | File type: PDF | 400 pages | ||3 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Remarkable!|By Suzanne|This scholarly study paints a portrait of an unsung patriot and black American patriarch. How many Americans escaped slavery, survived Civil War Naval duty and then raised sons who all fought in U.S. wars themselves?
The author, a Stanford law professor, is pretty accomplished himself: the first black man to head the National Labor Relations Bo|From Library Journal|Early in the Civil War, slave William Benjamin Gould fled by boat to Union-held territory and gained the status of "contraband of war." Joining the U.S. Navy, he helped win the conflict, ensuring his permanent emancipation. As he had lear
The heart of this book is the remarkable Civil War diary of the author’s great-grandfather, William Benjamin Gould, an escaped slave who served in the United States Navy from 1862 until the end of the war. The diary vividly records Gould’s activity as part of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron off the coast of North Carolina and Virginia; his visits to New York and Boston; the pursuit to Nova Scotia of a hijacked Confederate cruiser; and service in Europ...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor | William Benjamin Gould.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
