Frederick Douglass: “Men of Color, To Arms!”

Further Reading

Books

• Blight, David W. Frederick Douglass’ Civil War: Keeping Faith in Jubilee. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.
• Cornish, Dudley Taylor. The Sable Arm: Black Troops in the Union Army, 1861–1865. 2nd ed. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1987.
• Douglass, Frederick. The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass: His Early Life as a Slave, His Escape from Bondage, and His Complete History. New York: Dover Publications, 2003.
• Foner, Eric. Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
• Glatthaar, Joseph T. Forged in Battle: The Civil War Alliance of Black Soldiers and White Officers. New York: Free Press, 1990.
• McPherson, James. The Struggle for Equality: Abolitionists and the Negro in the Civil War and Reconstruction. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1964.
• Manning, Chandra. What This Cruel War Was Over: Soldiers, Slavery, and the Civil War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.

Web Sites

• “The Fight for Equal Rights: Black Soldiers in the Civil War.” National Archives “Teaching with Documents” Web site. http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/blacks-civil-war/.
• “Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, Virtual Museum Exhibit.” National Park Service Web site. http://www.nps.gov/history/museum/exhibits/douglass/.