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Black Confederates
This book examines African Americans and the Confederate war effort.
White Terror: the Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern Reconstruction
Allen W. Trelease's classic, groundbreaking 1971 study of the birth of the Klan during Reconstruction.
Neither Carpetbaggers Nor Scalawags: Black Officeholders During the Reconstruction of Alabama, 1867-1878, Second Edition.
A great book by native Alabamian Prof. Richard Bailey, who has lectured several times in Florence, on black officeholders such as Florence native and Republican Congressman (1873-1875) James T. Rapier (1838-1883) during Reconstruction in Alabama. …
Black Southerners in Confederate Armies: A Collection of Historical Accounts
Florence historian Lee Freeman notes that this book "examines multiple facets of the service of blacks on behalf of the Confederate war effort. The cover is of three Lauderdale County, AL black Confederate cooks/body-servants, from l, George W.…
Blacks in Blue and Gray: Afro-American Service in the Civil War
This book discusses the role of African Americans in both the United States Army and the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
The Confederate Negro: Virginia's Craftsmen and Milita
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Laborers, 1861-1865
This is one of the first books to examine African Americans in the Confederacy.
A Look at Mt. Zion
A History of Mt. Zion AME Church of Lauderdale County, AL compiled by member Mrs. Anita Cobb.
Black Catholics in the United States
Florence historian Lee Freeman: "A nice overview of black Catholics in the US from Colonial times to the present. Contains information on the antebellum black Catholic population of Mobile. In the mid-1940s Florence African-American businesswoman…
The Gray and the Black: The Confederate Debate on Emancipation
This book examines Confederate Gen. Patrick Cleburne's proposal to arm the slaves and free them after the war and the firestorm of debate which ensued.
Let Not Your Heart Be Hardened
This book tells the story of Joe Louis Duster, who grew up in Florence Alabama and became the city's first African American firefighter in 1981.
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