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Though few battles scarred North Carolina soil, the Tar Heel State's participation in the Civil War has been of great interest to historians. Civil War literature ranges from general reading and campaign narratives to children's books and scholarly texts. The following annotated list includes recent studies and classic readings.
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Reference
Slavery / Emancipation
Barrow, Charles Kelly, ed. Forgotten
Confederates. Atlanta: Southern Heritage Press, 1995.
- An anthology about black Southerners.
Crow, Jeffrey J. A History of African Americans
in North Carolina. Raleigh: Division of Archives and History, Department
of Cultural Resources, 1992.
- Crow examines the colonial origins of slavery,
African American life and labor before 1800, nineteenth-century slavery,
the Civil War, emancipation, Reconstruction, and the Civil Rights Movement.
Hilty, Hiram. By Land and by Sea. Greensboro:
North Carolina Friends Historical Society, 1993.
- Quakers confront slavery and its aftermath
in North Carolina.
Hurmence, Belinda. Before Freedom When
I Just Can Remember. Winston-Salem: John F. Blair, Publisher, 1989.
- Twenty-seven oral histories of former slaves.
Jacobs, Harriet. Incidents in the Life
of a Slave Girl. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987.
- An account of Jacobs's life in slavery and
her victorious struggle for freedom for herself and her children.
Reid, Richard, "Raising the African Brigade:
Early Black Recruitment in Civil War North Carolina." North Carolina
Historical Review 71 (July 1993): 266–301.
- Federal officials raised three regiments of
freed slaves on the coast of North Carolina in the government's first efforts
to enlist African Americans in the army.
Smith, John David. Black Voices from Reconstruction,
1865–1871. Brookfield, Conn.: Millbrook Press, 1996.
- North Carolinians figure prominently in this
volume of documents and reminiscences of emancipated slaves at the close
of the war.
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