Army Life in a Black Regiment - Softcover

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1582183589 ISBN 13: 9781582183589

Verlag: Digital Scanning Inc., 2001

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"Army Life in a Black Regiment" is the Civil War memoir of written by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, an abolitionist who was commissioned as a colonel to head the first regiment of emancipated slaves in 1862. Higgonson book is a stirring history of the first regiment of emancipated slaves formed to fight in the Civil War. It is also about Black soldiers in a white war, white officers in a Black regiment, self-discovery, rivers, and hope. Much of the imagery and characterization in the movie GLORY seems to have been adapted from "Army Life in a Black Regiment," which is a first-hand narrative of war by an idealist sorely tested by politics and physical hardship. Higginson's writing of the book is in part his attempt to deal with what today we would call Post-Traumatic-Stress Disorder, and it is no wonder that the tone sometimes reminds the reader of Hemingway's "Big Two-Hearted River." An interesting read for Civil War buffs and those interested in the role of black soldiers during Civil War days.

Biografía del autor:

Thomas Wentworth Higginson (1823–1911) was an American minister, author, abolitionist, and soldier. He was active in the American Abolitionism movement during the 1840s and 1850s, identifying himself with disunion and militant abolitionism. During the Civil War, he served as colonel of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, the first federally authorized African-American regiment, from 1862-1864. Following the war, Higginson devoted much of the rest of his life to fighting for the rights of freed slaves, women and other disenfranchised peoples.

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• Verlag: Digital Scanning Inc.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1582183589
• ISBN 13: 9781582183589
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 308