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The State of Things
11:35 am
Tue June 14, 2011
Black Soldiers In The Civil War
- Host Frank Stasio talks about the experience of African American troops in North Carolina during the Civil War with Richard Reid, associate professor at Canada's College of Guelph and author of the book “Freedom for Themselves: North Carolina’s Black Soldiers in the Civil War Era” (UNC Press/2008).
Visualize a Civil War soldier and a sepia colored picture of a white man likely comes to mind. But thousands of African Americans in North Carolina served in the Union Army during the Civil War. They trained in the town of New Bern after its fall in March 1962.